“‘Why don’t universities make this a mandatory part of the curriculum?’ asked one performing arts student during one of my workshops. ‘Academic narcissism.’ I said without a beat.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
The TV Landscape Would Look Very Different In 2015 Without Issa Rae
“Rae’s series featured a cast of fully developed people of color. Links to her web series were passed from young Black woman to young Black woman across social media platforms, like lifelines to a different, better world. She was speaking to an ever-growing circle of women, the series amassing more than 20 million views.”
If You Want To See Your Work On Broadway, A New Play Won’t Do
“‘August: Osage County’ was the last serious drama by an American playwright to become a multiyear hit. Since 2010, the only straight play of any kind to have run on Broadway for more than a year was the Lincoln Center Theater transfer of the London production of ‘War Horse.'” Also, it doesn’t help as much as you might think to cast a TV or movie star.
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Angela Lansbury, At Long (Long, Long) Last, Wins An Olivier Award
“Thousands of years have gone by and we still have this thing called live theatre – and the reason is that we need to be able to compare ourselves to what we see up there and judge ourselves as human beings.”
Just Before Its Final Concert, The Green Bay Symphony Had Hundreds Of Tickets Available
“On the Friday before their final performance, only 480 tickets had been sold. ‘Trying to get Green Bay residents into a classics concert— even this one this Saturday night— is very difficult.'”
Is One Of Egypt’s Most Celebrated Paintings A 19th-Century Italian Fake?
“The plaster artifact shows three couples of geese amongst tufts of grass, and was supposedly found by Italian Egyptologist Luigi Vassalli, then a curator of the Museum Bulaq, in the Atet chapel at the Nefermaat funerary complex at Meidum. Tiradritti thinks it is highly likely that Vassalli is the real artist behind the geese.”
Why Is So Much Entertainment About The Selling Of Dead Girls And Women?
“A single show with a woman who is the victim of violence for ‘entertainment’ isn’t the problem. However, with show after show employing victimization of women as a plot device it just doesn’t reflect the wide range of actual women’s experience. Instead, it reinforces the narrative of woman as victim in real life. It reinforces that women are to be abused and avenged.”
The Man Who Formalized Jazz Dance As He Recovered From Paralysis
“Starting in the late 1940s, he conceived an approach to the genre that is known for its elegance, liquidity and keen musicality. It emphasizes strength, balance, alignment, bodily freedom and above all the imperative of his oft-repeated mantra, ‘Never stop moving.’ It was an imperative born of grueling necessity.”
Garry Trudeau Explains Why Satire – And Charlie Hebdo – Shouldn’t ‘Punch Downward’
“Satire punches up, against authority of all kinds, the little guy against the powerful. Great French satirists like Molière and Daumier always punched up. … Ridiculing the non-privileged is almost never funny — it’s just mean. By punching downward, by attacking a powerless, disenfranchised minority with crude, vulgar drawings closer to graffiti than cartoons, Charlie wandered into the realm of hate speech.”