“On Monday, the striking Writers Guild of America announced interim deals with Spyglass Entertainment and Media Rights Capital that allow its members to write on those companies’ projects… It’s a development that has many writers hopeful,” and has the few studios that have agreed to deals in the unique position of suddenly being the only game in town.
Tag: 01.16.08
Ferrell To Mount Broadway Show?
“Will Ferrell has been quietly poking around Broadway, looking for a theater for a show he’s writing and will star in next fall… The Ferrell Project will be autobiographical and include anecdotes about the comedian’s work on ‘Saturday Night Live.'”
Can The Web Bring Broadway Back To The Masses?
“Broadway is often a hermetic little world, and even while several new [web sites] glory in that rarefied audience, they have also arrived with the potential and purpose of bridging the gap between the obsessed and the genuinely, but not fanatically, interested.”
Broadway’s Most Fascinating Producer?
Producer Jeffrey Richards is a bit of an odd duck in the Broadway world. “He does not belong with the young Turks intent on reinventing the Broadway musical, nor with the Broadway Medicis who finance their projects with money earned elsewhere. He is a professional theater man with a love for straight plays and a rather scary amount of industry knowledge, akin to baseball fans who can rattle off decades-old batting averages of obscure players. Fanatic would not be too strong a word.”
Startling Sexhibit Comes To Paris Library
“‘Hell at the Library, Eros in Secret,’ which opened at [Paris’s National Library] last month, offers a peek at its secret archive of erotic art, putting on display more than 350 sexually explicit literary works, manuscripts, engravings, lithographs, photographs, film clips, even calling cards and cardboard pop-ups… Sadism, masochism, bestiality, inflated genitalia and the most imaginative sexual fantasies and athletic poses are given their due.”
Rent Closing On Broadway
Producers of the hit Broadway rock musical Rent have announced that the show will close June 1, ending a 12-year run that was one of Broadway’s longest. “An East Village rock version of Puccini’s opera La Bohème, Rent brought a youthful energy — and young theatergoers — to Broadway, to a degree not seen since Hair.“
Nowhere To Go But Up
Saskatchewan’s Saskatoon Symphony has been struggling with fiscal problems and embarrassingly public internal spats over the last several months. Now, the orchestra’s chairman is attempting to dial down the rhetoric and get all sides to listen to each other. A fired cellist may be reinstated as a result, and other sour relationships may finally be addressed.
LACMA Scores $10m Gift
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art has announced a $10m gift from one of its trustees to go towards LACMA’s new Broad Contemporary Art Museum. “The donation is earmarked for contemporary art programs and acquisitions.”