“Talent, royalty fees and sets for some of Canada’s biggest productions often come from south of the border and are contracted in U.S. dollars. But with the Canadian dollar dipping below 70 cents last week, those contracts are now looking a lot more expensive than when they were initially negotiated.”
Tag: 01.18.16
Being A Parent Should Not Kill Your Cultural Life
“Theatre-going is a habit, and if it’s lost it may not be rekindled for many years. Start parent-and-child theatre outings early, and they are likely to continue throughout childhood and into teenage years.”
As Human Beings, What Do We Owe To The World’s Swelling Ranks Of Refugees?
“Now, in Germany and elsewhere, doors are closing. But what are the potential consequences of this resistance to outsiders, to those in need? Is it justified? Do we owe the suffering and dispossessed something more, if we are to call ourselves ethical beings?”
Penguin Random House Will No Longer Require Job Applicants To Have A Degree
“Penguin Random House human resources director Neil Morrison said that growing evidence shows there is no simple correlation between having a degree and future professional success … ‘Simply, if you’re talented and you have potential, we want to hear from you. This is the starting point for our concerted action to make publishing far, far more inclusive than it has been to date.”
Have We Reached PeakTV Yet?
“Counting television series is like counting lemmings. Hopefully they won’t all run off a cliff and plunge to their deaths in the ocean.”
Should Philosophy Help People Live A More Satisfying Life? Or Is It Strictly A Search For Truth?
Nigel Warburton: “In my view philosophy is primarily the attempt to understand, and as such is an activity of enquiry. There’s no guarantee that discovering how things are will benefit us psychologically: it might in fact make things much worse.”
Jules Evans: “I’m not arguing that all philosophy is therapy, but rather that ancient Greeks and Romans viewed philosophy that way, as did many Indian philosophers. … Ancient philosophy really can help people overcome suffering.”
Are You Ready For The “Age Of Autonomy”?
“However quietly it begins to arrive, The Age of Autonomy marks a giant step beyond the world of connected devices and the Internet of Things. With 50 billion devices and a trillion sensors coming on line, simple practicality would suggest autonomy will become a necessity.”
What Do We Love About ‘War and Peace’?
“Tolstoy’s huge novel about Russia during the Napoleonic Wars has been adapted many times, despite the difficulty of catching the essence of a work whose essence has a lot to do with sheer scale. When the book was published, in 1869, people wondered … Was this a history or a novel? And why was it so big? It’s big because it’s both.”
Orlando’s Opera Company Is Back, Eight Years After Shutting Down
Opera Orlando, formerly Florida Opera Theatre, “will announce this week that two professionals with national reputations will take the helm full-time – a level of commitment to the genre not seen since the collapse of Orlando Opera in 2009. After that company went bankrupt, a small but fiercely devoted group of volunteers formed Florida Opera Theatre to stage small-scale productions and recitals.”
Milwaukee Sculpture Taken Down after Blogger Complained Is Re-Installed
“The sculpture by internationally recognized artist Jaume Plensa was taken down in November and altered after a New Jersey blogger accused the artist of embedding anti-Semitic slurs within what are supposed to be a random spill of steel letters.”