New Haven’s Long Wharf Theater needs a new theater. The city’s mayor thinks it would be swell to locate it downtown to help rebuild the area. But there’s this big new mall coming near the present site… – Hartford Courant
Tag: 01.23.00
PLAY INCUBATOR
Some of the UK’s best playwrights flock to London’s National Theatre Studio, next door to the Old Vic, to workshop their plays. – The Telegraph (UK)
EMI AND TIME WARNER TO MERGE
Music giant and multi-media behemoth to combine in latest media consolidation. – BBC 01/23/00
- Merger will create world’s largest record company. – Sydney Morning Herald 01/24/00
- Global music powerhouse – Wired 01/24/00
HISTORICAL SHOCK
New PBS series looks at the culture of shock in art. But, writes one critic, in choosing to focus on controversies from the past rather than recent issues, the show plays it safe – “safe in its choices of art to illustrate the never-ending conflict between artists and society, between freedom of expression and censorship, between what is conventional and what might lie ahead.” – New York Times 01/23/00