“A British theatre producer deported from Uganda after staging a play with a gay character has vowed to fight on and legally win the right to return to a country he calls home. David Cecil has been forced to leave behind everything, including his girlfriend of six years and two children aged two and one.”
Tag: 02.15.13
Portugal’s Economic Distress Channeled Into A Card Game
“The name of the game was ‘Vem Aí A Troika,’ or ‘Here Comes the Troika.’… When it came out in November, its creators, one of whom is a former university math professor, promised: ‘Now you, too, can bring the country to ruin’.”
“Wicked” Turns Ten – How Did It Get To Be A Star?
“How did a musical seen as a middling effort by the pros become a blockbuster of “Phantom”-like proportions? And what magic combination of ingredients has given it the gift of enduring popularity?”
Russians Say New Mariinsky Theatre Two Is So Ugly It Should Be Torn Down
The design and construction of the venue, a second stage for the Mariinsky’s opera and ballet performances, “enraged, first, Petersburg citizens and, then, Moscow intellectuals, who are now collecting signatures for a petition to the governor of St. Petersburg, demanding that the new theatre be razed to the ground.”
Why Do We Get Bored With Really Great Works Of Art?
“When we do wish an experience would last forever, we don’t wish it for very long. Most of us let go of such impossible, incoherent desires almost as soon as they arise.”
Who Is Art Spiegelman (Just In Case You Don’t Already Sort Of Know From His Books)?
On Maus: “I feel like … a blues musician who had one crossover hit, so they just ask you to play that at every concert,” he says.
Can Composers Laugh At Themselves?
“Composers tend to be both competitive (as the lifeblood of our art–performances–are of a limited supply) and not a little sensitive about their own self-perceived flaws. Humor, therefore, is a rare bird.”
Canada’s Largest Movie Theatre Chain Buys Vancouver Indies
One independent theatre employee: “We are going to lose the sense of going to a unique theatre and lose the sense of small independent busineses dedicated to art films and supporting the arts.”
The Conceptual Architect Who Only Got One Design Actually Built
Lebbous Woods “envisioned underground cities, floating buildings and an eternal space tomb for Albert Einstein worthy of the great physicist’s expansive intellect.”
Or Nautical Almanacs
“Few companies of any kind survive five generations of family ownership without celebrating their longevity. The Browns refuse to boast about it.”