First, Isaac Hayes quit “South Park” because he didn’t like that the show was making fun of religion. Then Comedy Central pulled the show Hayes had quit over after pressure from Scientologists. “In 10 years and over 150 episodes of ‘South Park,’ Isaac never had a problem with the show making fun of Christians, Muslims, Mormons or Jews. He got a sudden case of religious sensitivity when it was his religion featured on the show.”
Tag: 03.19.06
After 21 Years Adams Leaves TheatreWorks
One of the Bay Area’s longest-serving and most successful managing directors is leaving. Randy Adams has led TheatreWorks, and “for 21 years, working with founder and Artistic Director Robert Kelley, Adams helped transform an ambitious small Palo Alto company with a $300,000 budget to one of the region’s leading theaters, operating in two cities, with a growing national reputation and a budget of $7 million.”
A Theatre Collective Decides To Appoint A Leader
Since its founding 28 years ago, Minneapolis/St. Paul’s Theatre de la Jeune Lune has been a collective, without a sole leader. That is about to change, as the company names its first director. “It is about time, said many admirers. Some feared that the theater’s internal fights over its direction and its guiding ideology, exacerbated in recent years by interpersonal rancor that has all but paralyzed decisionmaking, would lead it the way of the dodo.”
New Theatre, No Adventure
Minneapolis’ Guthrie Theatre is about to move in to a new $125 million theatre. As a prominent regional theatre, it can program almost anything it wants. But “the theater’s season announced this week is not merely unadventurous. This line-up is downright deflating, especially since it is the first opportunity to see shows in a hard-won facility sold partly on the promise of being a place that will push theater forward.”