With the boards of Cleveland’s two opera companies having officially agreed to merge, both groups are now playing the waiting game, hoping that transitional funds will come through and that all the niggling details on the legal end will work themselves out. When the dust clears, the combined company plans to present two large productions per season, plus lighter fare during the summer.
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Thinking You Can Dance
Dance shows are big in the TV ratings. So You Think You Can Dance is a competition that “puts dancers through a 12-week competition/boot camp to master everything from ballroom to hip hop. The winner gets a New York apartment and enough cash to live their dream.”
What Next For UK Lottery?
The UK lottery has transformed the country’s culture, building many significant projects. So what should be next?
Why Paris Is It For American Artists
“Paris, for Americans, has for two centuries embodied something other, and simpler. For two centuries Paris has been attached for Americans to an idea of happiness, of good things eaten and new clothes bought and a sentimental education at last achieved. To Americans, Paris suggests the idea of happiness as surely as an arrival in New York suggests hope and Los Angeles, in literature at least, hopelessness.”
Summers Forced Out Of Harvard – What Does It Mean?
What does Harvard president Larry Summers’ resignation mean? “Some look at him and see a textbook example of why trustees need to pay attention to what professors think. Others think he’s a textbook example that faculty members have too much say in what goes on at their campuses. Some think his biggest legacy in higher education will be unprecedented national discussion of women in science — an issue on which he didn’t intend to set off a public debate. Others think the collapse of his presidency may scare boards from hiring presidents who want to speak out on any controversial issues.”
Historic Apollo Theatre Gets Makeover
It will cost $65 million and remake the landmark theatre where Ella Fitzgerald once sang…
A Musical About Totalitarian North Korea?…
Chorus lines of goose-stepping soldiers and emaciated political prisoners will prance across the stage when “Yoduk Story,” a tear-jerker about a North Korean concentration camp whose name has the resonance of Auschwitz for some Koreans, opens here next month. Among the catchy tunes that South Korean theatergoers might soon be humming are “If I Could Walk Freely” and “All I Want Is Rice.”
High Def Threatens TV’s Stars
“Surely the greatest aesthetic threat to TV news since Technicolor, high-definition television is nearly 10 times sharper than regular television. About 18 million households now have HDTV-ready sets. By next year, that number could be as high as 50 million, according to some industry estimates. In 2009, when most of the broadcast networks are finished converting their news programs to high-def, much of the viewing public will be able to inspect the enamel on Katie Couric’s teeth, if they are so moved.”
Can Hip Hop Save Theatre?
“Of course, to say hip-hop can save the day doesn’t mean it will. Already it has been around for a quarter century and registered barely a flicker on the New York theatrical radar. Whether its potential will ever be realized depends a great deal on what’s going on right now at New York Theatre Workshop, where the playwright Will Power has written a hip-hop adaptation of Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes.”
China bans Movies With Humans And Animation
“In one of the more bizarre orders from China’s State Administration of Radio, Film and Television, TV shows and films featuring human actors with animated companions will be banned.”