“[The] American Guild of Musical Artists, which represents ballet dancers, [has] accused one of [Come Fly Away]’s lead producers of unfair labor practices, after Actors’ Equity Association agreed to represent the performers in the show.”
Tag: 01.08.10
Is There Any Such Thing As Quality In Theatre?
“How do we distinguish between something that is new but still rubbish, and something that is unfamiliar at first but requires that we develop a taste for it before its merits can be fully appreciated?”
Chicago Symphony Flutist Denies Slamming LA Philharmonic In Departure
“The Chicago reporters seem to like slanting every article to favor Chicago’s orchestra, even if it makes everyone else look bad. I never said or thought any negative things about the LA Phil, in fact I feel quite the opposite.”
Speculation Rise: Jeffrey Dietch To Head LA MoCA?
“American museum directors typically come from within the curatorial, academic or other nonprofit ranks. No major art museum in the United States is directed by a former owner of a commercial art gallery. Deitch, who began working in a SoHo art gallery in the mid-1970s, opened Deitch Projects, a commercial space, in 1996. He also serves as corporate art consultant to the international law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and several other corporations.”
Survey: Playwrights Are Very Unhappy
“In the book, playwrights complain that the American theater lacks leaders. That Broadway lacks real producers. That their plays get workshopped to death. That workshops are too hard to get. They don’t even much care for the audience that shows up to see their works.”
Why Google Is Good For Study Of History
“The existence of modern search technology should push us to improve historical research. It should tell us that our analog, necessarily partial methods have had hidden from us the potential of taking a more comprehensive view.”
Impass At The Seattle Symphony
“Labor relations have been bad for years at the SSO, so resolution won’t be easy. Meanwhile, pressure will grow on the orchestra management to get a settlement, so they can plan next season and sell tickets to it.”
The Utah Symphony On Life Support
“A million-dollar gift from the George S. and Dolores Doré Eccles Foundation will keep the state’s flagship arts organization playing awhile longer, but more life support is needed to ensure the orchestra’s survival. For Utahns, there is more at stake than the possible loss of a music ensemble.”
America’s Universities In Peril
“In 2001, America produced a third of the world’s science and engineering articles in refereed journals, and in three of the past four years its academics received two-thirds of the Nobel prizes for science and economics. No wonder America’s great universities lure the world’s cleverest students and the finest academics, many of whom stay to enrich their new country. Now these great factories of talent, ideas and technologies are threatened from without and within.”
Is Medieval England “In” Again?
“Two remarkable publishing successes of the past year have pointed towards a growing taste for a period often thought of as difficult, remote and unattractive.”