The minimum wage on Broadway is “more than triple the minimum on some of today’s currently running Equity tours. These tours aren’t Broadway and marketing them as such is frankly disingenuous.”
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Guy Who Steals The Show As An Angel At English National Opera Is An American Street Dancer
“Banks, whose real name is James Davis, did not even have a biography in the programme for English National Opera’s production of The Gospel According to the Other Mary – he became a Twitter enigma with audience members tweeting the question, who is he?”
If You’re Taking A Child To The Theatre, Plan For Her To Be Seen – And Heard
“Engagement can take many forms, and treating the theatre as if it’s a church where everyone must be reverent is not my idea of fun. Particularly not at most Christmas shows.”
Is ISIS Being Funding By Sales Of Antiquities?
“Profits from the sales of conflict antiquities are clearly partly underwriting Islamic State operations, and thus partly underwriting repression, war and genocide. And regardless of the precise numbers, that reality reinforces the need for cultural property protection, antiquities trade regulation and powerful policing.”
Frank Yablans dies at 79; Ex-Paramount and MGM/UA Chief
“He reportedly signed an eight-year contract that paid him $225,000 per year, plus 1.5% of gross profits, and presided over the studio during a time in which it released the first two installments of “The Godfather,” “Serpico,” “Paper Moon,” “Chinatown” and “Day of the Locust,” among others.”
That Lost Shakespeare Folio Was Mistakenly “Left Behind”
“Clitheroe’s Stonyhurst College began as St Omers College there in 1593. A spokeswoman said the “dog-eared” book must have been “overlooked” when the college was ordered to leave in 1762. The Folio collects 36 of Shakespeare’s 38 known plays for the first time, and was originally printed in 1623, seven years after the playwright’s death.”
This Is Where The Next Generation Of America’s Wealthy Arts Supporters Is Coming From
“For decades, arts organizations outside the U.S. have raised money by registering their nonprofits here, such as the American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra or the Royal Shakespeare Company’s RSC America. Now U.S. arts groups are flipping the script, but with a twist.”
Writer P.D. James, 94
“Ms. James was one of those rare authors whose work stood up to the inevitable and usually invidious comparisons with classic authors of the detective genre, like Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Margery Allingham.”
Is Our Art Reflecting Our Time?
“I would never tell artists that they had to address social issues in their work, because as soon as you tell artists that they have to do something, they turn around and poop on the floor. Tell them, instead, that these questions are difficult, that the story is missing something without them, that they are another dimension, and then see what happens.”
Families Try To Recover Art Seized By Cold War-Era East German Government
“While the loss and anguish of Nazi art looting is well known, a second series of German art seizures, decades after World War II, has largely gone unnoticed. Between 1973 and 1989 the East German police, known as the Stasi, seized more than 200,000 objects in hundreds of raids, according to experts and official archives.”