Denver’s Arts Building Boom Works On A Next Phase

Denver has a new opera house and a new museum. Now the city is trying to raise $100 million to overhaul its concert hall. “The Boettcher overhaul would include an addition of a wrap-around, multistory glass lobby on its Speer Boulevard side and a reconfiguration of the 2,634-seat facility, reducing its seating to about 2,100 and enhancing its acoustics.”

The New Path To Success

“There was a time, not long ago, when, if you wanted to edit your homemade movie, you’d need two VHS players or a pair of scissors. You could add a soundtrack by walking your VHS cassette over to that friend with a $50,000 Avid editing system. Then you could mail that homemade movie to a few hundred film festivals around the world, or save the postage and throw it in the garbage. Now who needs film festivals? YouTube videos are viewed 100 million times a day.”

Eric Bentley At 90

“Bentley won early and intense fame with his 1946 book ‘The Playwright as Thinker,’ which made the study of drama intellectually respectable for the first time. He then published several other ambitious and penetrating books, including ‘Bernard Shaw’ (1947), ‘The Life of the Drama’ (1964) and three collections of theater criticism, that fixed his place in the tiny pantheon of permanently interesting drama critics.”

Change Roils Scotland’s Biggest Art Fair

The head of the Glasgow Art Fair may step down after criticism. “Pete Irvine was criticised by some Glasgow galleries for deselecting them in favour of more high-profile London and international collections. And following this year’s annual event in April, two of the Scottish galleries excluded called for a public consultation over the event’s future.”

Too Much Stage Disney?

“Whether you live in New York or Newport Beach, Berlin or Shanghai, you’re likely to be within driving distance of at least one Disney musical in the next 12 months. All that competing Disney product has some observers predicting trouble. There is that question of whether the Disney (musicals) will cannibalize each other.”