“For a company with no executive director, development director, or permanent artistic director, a remarkable sense of passion and purpose appears to have set in, alongside a frank acknowledgement of the deep problems the troupe faces.”
Tag: 02.09.13
NY Review Of Books – Good Writing, Even In Its Personal Ads
For example: “FANNIE MAE with troubled assets, bored with Freddie Mac, seeks well-regulated stimulus package from counterparty too big to fail. No cash for clunkers.”
Accept A Knighthood, Get Aged Out Of The Arts?
“‘When you get to my age, there’s a certain point at which you’re assumed to be dead,’ says Jonathan Miller, explaining why there has been a five-year gap between plays he has directed.”
The Man Behind The Grammy Show
“Mr. Ehrlich, 70, has been producing the Grammy Awards show for 33 years, and over that period he has become known for making the three-and-a-half-hour show into a forum for collaborations, historic reunions and spectacles that are perhaps unimaginable anywhere else.”
Florida Pastor Discovers That Forging Damien Hirst Paintings Isn’t So Simple
“‘Everything’s good, everything’s good,’ Mr. Sutherland wrote in an e-mail when the undercover officer asked of assurances that the works were real.”
How Do You Solve A Problem Like Richard Wagner?
The music’s great; the man himself was rather inexcusable. We’re stuck with one if we want the other.
‘Chinglish’ Finds No Love In Mainland China
David Henry Hwang’s play accidentally (he says) matches last year’s scandal around the murder of a British expatriate businessman – so the play’s opening in Hong Kong instead of mainland China.
L.A.’s Gordon Davidson Wants Kids To Love Theatre (And Take It Seriously, Too)
When the man who founded the Mark Taper Forum asked his USC theatre class students what they wanted to do, they mostly said Hollywood. He was not amused.
Why Is The EU Trying To Fund Sex-Soaked Bulgarian Pop-Folk Music?
The planned EU cultural subsidy “caused tensions over Bulgarian culture, morals and values, that have divided the nation for two decades, to explode.”
Does The Moon Have An Airport Code Yet?
Commercial moon flights might be on their way … if you and a friend have $1.5 billion to spend.