Maybe arts organizations need to grab hold of the “influencer baby” trend on Instagram. (Yes, this does sound eerily like something out of Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad.) “Influencer marketing has exploded. And more recently, one area has proven to be particularly lucrative: sponsored content that involves kids, or spawn con.”
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The Composer Premiering A Classical-Pop WWI Commemoration Piece At The BBC Proms
Anna Meredith: “It’s five short pieces about the first world war using a big-ass orchestra, young musicians, a choir and the spectacular, eye-boggling visuals of 59 Productions. It’s not soldier’s stories but the mechanics of how they communicated: codes, redaction, field postcards.”
How To Get A (Probable) Hit On The Cartoon Network
Have some luck, get a master’s degree from the Royal College of Art, and work your butt off for at least three years. Summer Camp Island creator and showrunner Julia Pott: “I feel like I’m just the person who created the world, and all of my favorite jokes and moments have come from other people.”
Brit And Aussie Authors Are Still Unhappy With The Idea Of Letting Americans Into The Booker Race
Peter Carey, two-time Booker winner, doesn’t think that the U.S. should be part of the conversation or the competition: “I am sure that American prizes don’t give a stuff about Australians or New Zealanders or Canadians, or any of those voices. An English prize does because there is still a family connection, a cultural connection that really does mean something.”
How – And Why? – Are Plays And Musicals About The Subjugation Of Women On Broadway Right Now?
My Fair Lady and Carousel were both revived with careful and lush attention to their music, but they were nominated for few Tonys, and both lost Best Musical Revival to the comparatively little-known Once on This Island. “The beautiful orchestra readings alone make a trip to each revival essential for anyone who can afford a ticket — it’s hard to imagine Carousel, in particular, sounding so good again.
The ‘Best Of The Booker’ Or Golden Booker Prize Goes To ‘The English Patient’
That decision came with input from, to put it mildly, a lot of people: “The one-off award, voted for by the public, commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Man Booker prize. The shortlist of five novels was selected by a panel of judges from the 51 previous winners of the Man Booker, which honors the best novels written in English and published in Britain or Ireland.”
How Should Theatres Respond To Casting Controversies?
It’s not a PR problem, y’all. And it’s not going to go away with a blog post from the artistic director blaming actors of color for not being available.
HBO Got Bought, And Now Changes May Be Coming
Things are going to change. HBO’s new executive, who was a longterm executive at AT&T, “described a future in which HBO would substantially increase its subscriber base and the number of hours that viewers spend watching its shows. To pull it off, the network will have to come up with more content, transforming itself from a boutique operation, with a focus on its signature Sunday night lineup, into something bigger and broader.”
A Proposed New Theatre In England Gets A High Court Legal Challenge
The local planning council gave permission for a 1200-seat theatre in a park in the city of Tunbridge Wells, but there’s a challenge: “Former conservative councillor Brian Ransley has submitted an application for judicial review to the high court, which means a judge will review the planning decision made by the council. The claim was based on an objection to the process that was used by the council to come to the decision, according to Ransley.”
Wait, Maybe We’re Not Actually Oblivious While We’re Concentrating
The problem doesn’t necessarily lie in the experiments (the gorilla suit in the middle of the basketball game, etc.), but in the conceptual ideas behind the experiments. “The assumption of human blindness or bias makes scientists themselves blind to the other, more positive aspects of human cognition and nature.”