Ink, a London transfer, starring Bertie Carvel and Jonny Lee Miller and directed by Rupert Goold, about Rupert Murdoch’s transformation of Britain’s The Sun into the notorious tabloid it is today, features several dance numbers choreographed by Lynne Page. Sylviane Gold talks to Page about the movement she devised for the show and how it’s different from what she’d do with a musical. – Dance Magazine
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The Afterlife Of ‘Jeopardy!’ Champions
“For some contestants, winning might usher in 15 minutes of fame and a small, unexpected windfall.” And then there’s Ken Jennings, who launched a couple of new careers as a result. Reporter Niraj Chokshi talked to Jennings and three other former winners about how the show (and not just the prize money) changed their lives. – The New York Times
Will Theatre Ever Again Be At The Center Of Our Culture? Wrong Question
“[Stage plays] once entertained the tired businessman, and also somehow managed to stir hearts and minds with piercing social critique. Eugene O’Neill made the cover of Time four times in his career! How will we ever get back to that halcyon age, which was — well, when was it, exactly?” People have been asking that question at least since the advent of moving pictures, and it may not even be an apt question about, as Rob Weinert-Kendt puts it, “an art form expressly built to die and be reborn.” – American Theatre
Condé Nast Makes Bid To Become The Next Streaming Video Powerhouse
“Condé Nast wants Madison Avenue to believe that its video programming represents a ‘new primetime’ for reaching coveted audiences that are abandoning TV. … All told, [the media company] said it has 50 returning digital video series and more than 175 pilots in production slated to hit over 2019-20.” – Variety
How Do You Move A 20-By-11-Foot, $30 Million Painting Across The Atlantic?
Very carefully, of course. As for how, specifically, you go about it, reporter Ted Loos looked in on the handlers and shippers of William-Adolphe Bouguereau’s La Jeunesse de Bacchus (1884) as it made its way from Paris to New York. – The New York Times
Student Activists Demand Camille Paglia’s Dismissal
The ever-controversial writer and social critic has been teaching at Philadelphia’s University of the Arts for 30 years and is one of the few faculty members there with tenure. Now, a petition begun by a group of students declares that “Camille Paglia should be removed from UArts faculty and replaced by a queer person of color” because of opinions she has expressed on transgender issues and campus sexual assault. (Paglia identifies as transgender.) Others, including writer Conor Friedersdorf, argue that the activists’ demands pose a danger to freedom of expression. – The Atlantic
Backlash After Turner Prize Accepts Sponsor Who Campaigned Against Marriage Equality
Britain’s highest-profile art prize is getting heavy criticism for taking as a lead sponsor the bus company Stagecoach: its chairman, Brian Souter, was a leading opponent of extending marriage rights to same-sex couples in the UK and fought repeal of a law which banned discussion of homosexuality in schools. – The Independent (UK)
Osmo Vänskä Named Music Director Of Seoul Philharmonic
South Korea’s flagship orchestra has been without a music director since Myung-Whun Chung resigned at the end of 2015, toward the end of an astoundingly tumultuous period at the ensemble. Vänskä, who will remain with the Minnesota Orchestra until the summer of 2022, begins work in Seoul in January of 2020. – Twin Cities Pioneer Press
U.S. Judge Rules Madrid’s Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum Can Keep Pissarro Looted By Nazis
“The government-owned Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid acquired hundreds of artworks, including the Pissarro, from the [eponymous] baron in 1993 for $350 million. The U.S. court ruling comes almost 14 years after Claude Cassirer sued to recover the painting” — Rue Saint-Honoré, après-midi, effet de pluie — “his grandmother was forced to sell for a pittance to avoid being sent to an extermination camp.” – Bloomberg
Can This Woman Turn Around The Market For Hindi Pulp Fiction?
The once-enormous market for popular crime novels in India’s most widely spoken language began falling off a cliff in the 1990s. Then Minakshi Thakur, an executive at HarperCollins India took on the challenge of bringing it back. – Verve (India)