“This is not just a question of sound. At its very best a visit to a musical performance is a multi-sensory, spatial, three-dimensional experience. It is influenced by the properties of surfaces, materials and light, interactions between performers, audience and each other, the way you move through foyers and up stairs and lifts. It extends to the streets around.”
Tag: 01.17.16
The Rise Of ‘Hamilton’ Means A Rise In Fake Tickets As Well
“The juggernaut that is ‘Hamilton,’ the acclaimed hip-hop musical, has created a demand for tickets so high that busy counterfeiters seem to have found a fresh opportunity to trick not only unsuspecting tourists but even New Yorkers like the ones above. Fake tickets show up at the door almost daily.”
Making The Humanities Cool Again Through Passionate – And Earnest – Teaching
“Those charged with overseeing learning often want ‘outcomes’ rather than process, even if those outcomes are temporary, even if the picture they paint is incomplete. The labor of teaching—that hands-on, dynamic and most valuable of endeavors—is often shortchanged and even derided.”
A Belgian Playwright Tackles Radicalization With Comedy
Ismaël Saïdi’s “story of three hapless young men who find themselves launched from a park bench in Brussels to the killing fields of Syria has become a sensation, going from an initially scheduled five performances to more than 100 now, with dozens more planned.”