Anne Midgette: “Gone are the days when there was a fixed canon of ‘good’ composers (or, worse, ‘approved’ ones), and a critic told you what you were supposed to like. Today, musical taste has blown wide open.”
Tag: 08.19.11
Publishers, Movie Studios Spend Big Bucks To Try To Replace “Harry”
“Publishers are shelling out big advances for debut novels that promise to lure young adults and adults alike and reach fans of literary and commercial fiction.”
How To Qualify For Britain’s New “Talent” Visa
“The scheme will allow high-profile arts figures to come to the UK on special visas for up to three years and four months without having a job lined up. ACE and producers trade body PACT will assess applications in the culture and entertainment sectors, for which 300 visas are available in the first year.”
“Chicago” Set To Break Broadway Record Next Week
“The show, which features a score by John Kander and Fred Ebb and a book by Ebb and Bob Fosse, will play its 6,138th performance on August 27, passing A Chorus Line for the fourth spot on the all-time Broadway longevity list and making it the longest-running American musical in Broadway history.”
The Defining Generational Movie – Just When To Pin It Down?
“No British youth subculture worth its drugs has gone unnoticed by film-makers, but the 90s rave culture has proved notoriously difficult to pin down with any degree of artistic or box-office success.”
Did YouTube Kill Performance Art?
“In the Internet age, when the line between “happenings” and publicity stunts has blurred, can performance art still resonate with the public?”
You Know What We Need? A Shakespeare Play-And-Opera Festival
Terry Teachout: “New York’s Lincoln Center Festival and Washington’s Kennedy Center are both capable of making it happen. Wouldn’t you love to see a matinee performance of Othello at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, then stroll next door to the Metropolitan Opera House and hear Otello?”