“The first-ever autism-friendly performance of the Broadway hit Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark will take off this spring and tickets go on sale Thursday.”
Tag: 02.06.13
People Swap Genes More Readily Than They Do Folk Tales
“A new study of how it changed shows that people who came from different language groups – or who lived a few hundred kilometres apart – were more likely to have children with each other than to exchange their version of the story.”
Robert Wilson On Directing Theater Via Silence
“Today if I’m directing The Ring of Wagner, Shakespeare’s King Lear or The Threepenny Opera, I still start directing the work silently. … That means Brünnhilde will stand in one position for five minutes where she will later be singing, so she begins to understand what it’s like in terms of the physicality of doing the role and what the visual image is like. We begin to listen to the silences and how they are structured, and later I add text and music.”
The Hairdo Archaeologist
“By day, Janet Stephens is a hairdresser at a Baltimore salon, trimming bobs and wispy bangs. By night she dwells in a different world. At home in her basement, with a mannequin head, she meticulously re-creates the hairstyles of ancient Rome and Greece.”
Why This Is The Best Of Times For Publishing
“Anything good that happens, any genuine excitement that a book elicits can be amplified and repeated and streamed and forwarded and linked in a way that excitement spreads more quickly and universally than ever before. And what I’m seeing is that really wonderful books — the books that people get genuinely excited about because they change their lives, they give them new ideas — those books can travel faster, go further, sell more copies sooner than ever before.”
Netflix’s Series Release Strategy Challenges Viewers
These are the conundrums that accompany the decades-long shift from “appointment viewing” to the on-demand kind — and they’re heightened by Netflix, which is plowing new ground by trying to make network-quality programming exclusively for the Web.
Sotheby’s Quits Live Auctions In Canada
Sotheby’s will now focus on “private sales,” with the Toronto-based operation functioning “privately and discreetly” as the liaison between the consignor of a particular piece of art and those clients with sufficient dollars to buy it.
A New Dallas Museum Shows How Philanthropy Works
Anonymous donors are scarce in these parts.
Broadway’s Power Players: Movie Stars
“Hollywood stars like [Scarlett] Johansson and Al Pacino have become so essential to Broadway – both for attracting investors and selling tickets – that they are calling the shots as never before, bringing back plays that were seen on Broadway only a few years earlier and sometimes edging out new works.”