“Even as he evolved into their doctor, interpreter, educator and chief negotiator with outside buyers and suppliers, he often found himself in a paradoxical position: A Westerner committed to safeguarding the ancestral cultural traditions of a clan that was growing accustomed to – and even preferred – modern comforts.”
Tag: 04.10.17
Scientists Say We Dream Way More Than We Think We Do
“There is much more dreaming going on than we remember. It’s hours and hours of mental experiences and we remember a few minutes.”
‘Akhnaten’ And Mark Wigglesworth Win Opera Prizes At Olivier Awards
Phelim McDermott’s English National Opera production – starring a naked nude Anthony Roth Costanzo – of the Philip Glass opera about the iconoclastic pharaoh won for best new opera production, while conductor Mark Wigglesworth – who stormed away from the ENO’s music directorship in March of last year to protest funding cuts – was honored for outstanding achievement in opera for his conducting of Don Giovanni and Lulu at the company.
Crystal Pite, Matthew Bourne, English National Ballet Take Olivier Awards For Dance
“Crystal Pite and actor/playwright Jonathon Young won Best New Dance Production for Betroffenheit, their harrowing exploration of loss and grief [at Sadler’s Wells]. … Tamara Rojo has made some gutsy choices since becoming artistic director in 2012, and ENB’s Best Achievement in Dance Olivier ‘for expanding the variety of their repertoire with Giselle and She Said at Sadler’s Wells’ is just one more spot of validation. … Not only did he garner the Best Theatre Choreographer award for his production of The Red Shoes, Bourne also got to accept the award for Best Entertainment and Family, again for The Red Shoes.”
Last-Ever Round Of Annenberg Arts Fellowships Announced
“The Leonore Annenberg Fellowship Fund for the Performing and Visual Arts … has distributed $6 million to 70 [early-career] artists over 10 years … The program was intended from its inception to end this year – the technical term is a ‘wasting endowment,’ created to be spent and then concluded – so the 2017 recipients will be its last.”
New Yorker Theatre Critic Hilton Als Wins Pulitzer Prize For Criticism
“For decades, Als has been a highly visible public intellectual. … In addition to writing his regular columns for The New Yorker, Als is an author, photographer, curator, and overall cultural force.”
Playwright Lynn Nottage Wins Her Second Pulitzer For ‘Sweat’
With her drama, now on Broadway, about working-class folks in a struggling Pennsylvania factory town, Nottage becomes the first woman playwright to win two Pulitzer Prizes.
Colson Whitehead’s ‘Underground Railroad’ Wins 2017 Pulitzer For Fiction
“The Pulitzer comes after The Underground Railroad won the National Book Award, after it was selected for Oprah’s Book Club, and after Moonlight director Barry Jenkins signed on to adapt it for television.”
Matthew Desmond’s ‘Evicted’ Wins Nonfiction Pulitzer, And Housing Advocates Are Beside Themselves
Henry Grabar: “In short, Evicted the book that everyone who thinks about housing for a living has been reading or giving to their friends.”
Pulitzer Prize For Biography Goes To Hisham Matar’s ‘The Return’
“Matar’s latest book details his return to Libya in 2012 as he sought the truth [of] his father’s fate, decades after he was kidnapped by Colonel Qaddafi’s secret security [forces]. … His first novel, In the Country of Men, was nominated for the 2006 Man Booker Prize.”