“Macbeth starring Kenneth Branagh at Manchester International Festival, Welsh National Opera’s Anna Bolena, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic’s Wagner on Merseyside – these are all shows where a screening in an independent cinema could allow more people to see the homegrown talent and productions on offer. Perhaps even London audiences could get to see the best theatre that isn’t touring to their feted stages.”
Tag: 01.07.13
Bette Midler To Return To Broadway After Three Decades
After years of limiting live performances to her trademark giddy extravaganzas at places like Radio City Music Hall and Las Vegas, the Divine Miss M will play the late Hollywood super-agent Sue Mengers in a one-woman show titled I’ll Eat You Last.
Stolen Matisse Recovered In London
“Le Jardin, or The Garden, was taken from the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm during a robbery in the early hours of 11 May, 1987.”
Where’s The Story In History? (And How To Tell It?)
“Tension between popular and scholarly approaches to history can get rancorous, as the recent dust-up over Steven Spielberg’s “Lincoln” can attest.”
Small Cable Channels Feeling The Squeeze
“Distributors have talked for years about belt-tightening, but two things are different now: potential Web competitors are creeping up and programming costs are soaring, particularly for sports channels and broadcasters.”
Would Tuition Disparity Encourage Study Of Other Majors?
“Offering tuition breaks for strategic majors is meant to entice undergraduates who otherwise might have pursued their passion for, say, literature, to instead choose to spend their college years learning skills like Java programming. But will it work?”
We’re Going To Broadway! (Maybe)
“The economics of Broadway have become prohibitive. Roughly 75 percent of shows on Broadway never turn a profit.”
The Man Who ‘Takes A Low Crime And Turns It Into An Art Form’
Apollo Robbins “is a peculiar variety-arts hybrid, known in the trade as a theatrical pickpocket. Among his peers, he is widely considered the best in the world at what he does, which is taking things from people’s jackets, pants, purses, wrists, fingers, and necks, then returning them in amusing and mind-boggling ways.”