“In less than a decade, the architecture of Washington theater has undergone the most radical revision in history. … While the physical expansion has given the theaters of Washington more flexibility, it has also upped the pressure, compelling boards and artistic directors to consider new methods of putting the spaces to work. In many cases, that has meant including in their seasons more plays by visiting companies.”
Tag: 06.01.10
Benedict Nightingale’s Successor Reports For Duty
Libby Purves: “[W]hat is a critic but an audience member with the duty to pass on the word? Stepping into his shoes as chief theatre critic of The Times today, not without apprehension and with more humility than you can possibly guess, I take that message in.”
Louise Bourgeois Dies at 98
“Ms. Bourgeois often spoke of pain as the subject of her art, and fear: fear of the grip of the past, of the uncertainty of the future, of loss in the present. ‘The subject of pain is the business I am in,’ she said. ‘To give meaning and shape to frustration and suffering.’ … Yet it was her gift for universalizing her interior life as a complex spectrum of sensations that made her art so affecting.”