“With the purchase, Key Brand acquired Broadway Across America, the presenting organization that began booking shows at the Music Hall last fall. Key Brand’s new assets also include eight theaters in North America owned or managed by Broadway Across America and Broadway Across Canada and investments in 13 current and upcoming Broadway shows and eight touring productions in the U.S.”
Tag: 02.09.08
When Everyone’s A Writer…
Creative writing as an area of study is booming in Australia … Australian universities now offer more than 70 of these courses. There are numerous mature-age students willing to pay universities $100-plus an hour to sit in a postgraduate writing class. But “the creative writing boom throws up striking paradoxes.”
Wanna Sell Your Music? Dance!
“Musical acts, especially unsigned performers, are increasingly turning to dance routines to promote their songs. Those routines are taking off on the dance floor and in endless imitations online, and they’re helping to drive music sales.”
Trash Fiction – There’s a Real Skill To It
A surprising number of people believe they can write romance fiction and make a lot of money. But it’s really harder than it looks…
The 20th Century Without Duchamp? Hard To Imagine
” The cleverest artist of the 20th century played a great joke on history, for Duchamp, who sanctioned and signed replicas of his works and is the prophet of the simulacrum, is in truth inimitable.”
A Grab to Control Creativity In Perpetuity
Copyright “hogs” like JK Rowling are making unprecedented claims for control not only of their work but any other works that might derive from it. Surely this isn’t good for the future of creativity…