The co-creator and original director – until she was very publicly fired – of the notoriously troubled Broadway musical is “apparently is owed six months of pay for her work on the production, and efforts to recover it haven’t been successful.”
Tag: 06.02.11
Naipaul ‘Losing His Grip’ Says Former Publisher
Diana Athill, who edited 18 of Naipaul’s books while at publisher Andre Deutsch and who is now a bestselling author herself, said of his remarks on female writers, “He always tended toward irritability, and it seems he is losing his grip. It is ridiculous. Taking myself out of it, you only have to think of authors like George Eliot, or Jane Austen – you cannot take it seriously.”
Take The Naipaul Test: Can You Tell An Author’s Sex?
“In an interview at the Royal Geographic Society this week, during which VS Naipaul provoked fury by suggesting that women writers are ‘sentimental’ and ‘unequal to me’, he also claimed that ‘I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.’ Do you?”
Why We Don’t Remember Those Earliest Childhood Memories
“The inability of adults to remember the earliest years of childhood–also known as infantile amnesia–has been the subject of speculation for more than a century.”
National Gallery Of Canada Lays Off Five Curators
“Five curators at the National Gallery of Canada are losing their jobs as part of cost-cutting measures, but the museum’s CEO says it will be hiring again around the end of the year. … The National Gallery has two dozen curators in all, making these most recent layoffs significant.”
How Much Smaller Will New York City Opera’s Next Budget Be? (About Half)
“According to a source near the company, current plans are to slash the budget by half, spending only about $11 million on the season, of which approximately $1.5 million (it is hoped) will be covered by ticket sales. The remaining $10 million or so of costs are to be made up through ‘unearned income,’ including donations to the company.”
Bringing Soap Opera To Cambodian Television
Matthew Robinson “was a longtime executive producer of the British series EastEnders, now in its 26th year. Arriving in Cambodia in 2003, he applied the same formula to create three groundbreaking series for Cambodian television, with a fourth now in the works.”
Modern-Dress School For Scandal: Critic Answers Back To Deborah Warner’s Defense
Michael Billington: “But, surely, a lot depends on the nature of the play and how you pitch it. … [Sheridan] was writing a social comedy rooted in 18th-century manners and delighting in verbal precision. To place it, as Warner does, in a world that’s part 18th century and part punk fashion and hard rock is simply to sow confusion.”
LAVA, Brooklyn’s Friendly Neighborhood Acrobatic-Dance-Theater Company
“Now in its 11th year, LAVA has survived as an outsider in the dance world – and through a recession – by cultivating a loyal following from its Brooklyn headquarters, where it operates a school for acrobatics … presents a seasonal, free open-performance event … and rehearses for shows across the city and, increasingly, around the world.”
Priced Out Of Print, Shelter Magazines Thrive Online
New Web-only publications such as Lonny, Rue, and High Glossare “oddly identical to a traditional print publication in format, with a table of contents, recurring features and a software platform that recreates the experience of flipping a magazine’s pages.”