— then released after leading 500 demonstrators protesting the building of a dam in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh. – BBC
Tag: 01.12.00
AS A COMPOSER, —
— Andrew Lloyd Webber certainly has his detractors in the theater world. But reviews of his purchase of ten of London’s West End theaters have pretty much everyone cheering. “Indeed, it is Lloyd Webber’s standing in London’s creative theater community that makes his victory so welcome. Under Lloyd Webber’s influence, it is widely believed, the West End will be more open to productions with an element of edge and commercial risk.” – Los Angeles Times
A “HEDLEY” FOR THE 80s:
August Wilson makes it to the 80s with his “King Hedley II” the latest in his decade-by-decade tracing of the black American 20th Century experience “True to form, Mr. Wilson has endowed his struggling souls with a metaphysical grandeur and a titanic vigor of language that is like no other dramatist’s.” – New York Times