Category: today’s top story

Nell “Leyshon is the first known woman to have her work performed at the Globe but, to be fair to the theatre, its operating years have not helped. It opened in 1599 … but it was closed by the Puritans in 1642 and demolished two years later.” It wasn’t until 1997 that “performances began once more at the reconstructed theatre.”

“Worries about information overload are as old as information itself, with each generation reimagining the dangerous impacts of technology on mind and brain. From a historical perspective, what strikes home is not the evolution of these social concerns, but their similarity from one century to the next, to the point where they arrive anew with little having changed except the label.”

Francis, from Oxfordshire, the author of 42 novels, was “rightly acclaimed” as one of the greatest thriller writers in the world, his spokesman said.

“A judge in Italy has ordered the confiscation of the famed Statue of the Victorious Youth, which is also known as the Getty Bronze. The artwork, which dates from 300 B.C. to 100 B.C., is currently in the collection at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles.”

Ben Brantley writes about learning some compassion for audience members whose cell phones ring during a performance after his own (mortified) date’s phone rang during a play. Brantley then invites offenders to post comments “about what it feels like to be on the other side of the law.” (Comments are running roughly 20-to-1 unsympathetic.)

Scott “Hawkins said that in his efforts to help restructure the company to cope with its financially straitened circumstances, ‘after analyzing the budget in December I decided we could no longer afford a managing director’s salary.'” So, with artistic director Loretta Greco and the board, he “worked out a new structure” and quietly left.

“The climactic moment in William Faulkner’s 1942 novel Go Down, Moses comes when Isaac McCaslin finally decides to open his grandfather’s leather farm ledgers with … proof of his family’s slave-owning past. Now, what appears to be the document on which Faulkner modeled that ledger as well as the source for myriad names, incidents and details that populate his fictionalized Yoknapatawpha County has been discovered.”

“Architecture for Humanity works with groups around the world to rebuild communities struck by natural and man-made disasters.” Now the “organization is helping to reconstruct the poorest country in the Western hemisphere. The first task is to build disaster recovery centers that will serve other relief groups.”

“In a move that makes [Gregory] Nash’s tenure at the Young Vic one of the shortest ever for a senior manager at a major UK theatre, last month he and artistic director David Lan agreed ‘mutually and amicably’ that Nash would leave the venue after serving only around half of his probationary period.”

The school of the Ballet Nacional de Cuba “is now world-famous, gathering its students from the island’s rural poor and urban delinquent,” and its training “is also world-class.” But while ballet is “a national entertainment” in Cuba, the country’s “political, economic and cultural limbo” means its astounding dancers have very few choices.