“Can theatre and rock music ever mix? It’s a question that rears its poodle-haired head every few years or so. Whether the answer is to be found in anything other than a greatest-hits medley hung on a paint-by-numbers plot is another matter. The new play this time is Nevermind, a fringe piece at the Old Red Lion Theatre in Islington, North London about a manic depressive music journalist visited by the ghost of Kurt Cobain.”
Tag: 06.09.09
Sans Gehry, Arena Will Create Black Hole In Heart Of B’klyn
“The recent news that the developer Forest City Ratner had scrapped Frank Gehry’s design for a Nets arena in central Brooklyn is not just a blow to the art of architecture. It is a shameful betrayal of the public trust, one that should enrage all those who care about this city.” Gehry’s design was “thoughtful architecture,” but the “colossal, spiritless box” that’s to replace it “embodies the crass, bottom-line mentality that puts personal profit above the public good.”
Lincoln Center Names A Chairwoman: Katherine G. Farley
“Katherine G. Farley, a senior managing director at the real estate company Tishman Speyer and head of Lincoln Center’s redevelopment project, has been appointed the chairwoman of Lincoln Center. Ms. Farley, 59, will serve for a year in tandem with the current chairman, Frank A. Bennack Jr., the chief executive of the Hearst Corporation, who will step down next June after five years in the job.”