“As industry heavyweights, such as Time Warner and Disney, push ever more-expensive packages of their cable programming, the smaller networks will lose leverage to negotiate their own deals. As a result, they could see less favorable deals or risk being dropped altogether.”
Tag: 09.05.10
A Responsibility For Political Theatre (Or Not?)
“Theatre has a responsibility to hold a mirror up to our society and necessarily that is to reflect our political activity. I think that over the last five years the vigour, pertinence and virility of political theatre in this country has been unmatched.”
Will 3D TV Cause A Generational Rift?
“Television technology is poised for another sea change, and when that happens, a curtain drops between generations, thick and impenetrable. Those growing up on one side of the curtain, the one represented by the new technology, cannot move backward into the previous technology any more than a person who discovers double-stuffed Oreos can ever go back to eating single-stuffed.”
Audience Behavior Matters At Classical Music Concerts
“Does that etiquette have any purpose beyond crusty tradition? As far as classical music is concerned, the answer is yes. The need to sit still and pipe down is purely practical: to enable everyone to hear properly and to respect the performers, as well as fellow listeners. No one cares what you wear any more, and all that social nicety stuff is dead.”
Time To Put The Dance Back In Dance?
“There will always be choreographers who care about steps, music and classical forms. But for many experimental artists, the word “dance” alone can’t begin to hold it all in. So what are we talking about when we talk about dance these days?”
Editorial Cartoonist Paul Conrad, 86
“With an unyielding liberal stance rendered in savage black and white, Conrad both thrilled and infuriated readers for more than 50 years. He won three Pulitzer Prizes, a feat matched by only two other cartoonists in the post- World War II era.”