The playwright has four Tony nominations, including one win, as well as Drama Desk and Obie Awards. What led him to become a member of the tiny Gift Theater? Anne Spiselman called him and asked.
Tag: 02.17.17
Which Canonical Books Are Routinely Misread And Misinterpreted?
Rivka Galchen writes about how she, like many, misunderstood Don Quixote when she first read it. Benjamin Moser argues that the answer to the question has to be the Bible. (Too easy?)
There Were Nobel-Winning Writers At The Munich Security Conference (Who Knew?)
“In a series of public talks entitled ‘The Cassandra Phenomenon,’ world class writers Herta Müller, David Grossman, and Wole Soyinka [added] their voices to the debate about international security challenges.”
New York Museums In All-Out Resistance To Trumpism
“The Whitney may have been the first New York museum to signal its resistance to the new Administration, but waves of actions have followed. No major institution closed in response to the #J20 movement’s call for an art strike during the Inauguration, but the Whitney invited Occupy Museums to program a series of talks in its theatre, and the Brooklyn Museum hosted a seven-hour reading of Langston Hughes’s poem “Let America Be America Again.” Most significant, the week after Trump signed his now unravelling travel ban, the Museum of Modern Art replaced seven works in its sacrosanct fifth-floor galleries—the domain of van Gogh, Picasso, and Pollock—with pieces by artists from three of the seven targeted Muslim-majority nations.”
Will “The Great Wall” Establish China As A Global Movie Powerhouse?
“Filmed entirely in China, the film is a $150-million (U.S.) attempt to prove that with enough money and talent, some of the brightest entertainment minds on both sides of the Pacific can assemble a film that audiences in both China and the West want to watch. It is also perhaps the most visible flagpost in a sweeping attempt to build China into an even greater entertainment power, one with the technical capacity and storytelling savvy to win over audiences far and wide.”
The City Of Bath Has Its Arts Grants Slashed 100 Percent, And Equity Appeals To The Secretary Of Culture
Equity says, “The council has committed an act of cultural vandalism in Bath that will result in a new dark age for arts and culture in the region.”
Remember The Suzuki Method? What Is It, Really?
Take learning by ear, combine it with some out-of-control pop psychology, and mix in experimentation and perhaps some flat-out lies of biography, and you’ll get this pedagogy that powers much of North American violin teaching.
Abba Tor, The Engineer Who Made Eero Saarinen’s TWA Terminal Even Better, Has Died At 93
“‘Concrete is dumb,’ Mr. Tor said. … ‘It doesn’t know for whom it is being poured.’ Engineering necessity gave birth to one of the most inviting facets of the terminal’s undulating interior: ribbons of skylights along the joints that were opened among the four vaults. The skylights turn what might have been a heavy blanket into something luminous and billowy.”
If You Want Misty Copeland’s Shoes, You’d Best Be Prepared With Some Cash
Basically, “signed pointe shoes often become gift-shop items or special giveaways for ballet fans. But Copeland’s worn-out shoes are different. The principal dancer with American Ballet Theatre has achieved rare celebrity status.” In an auction that closes today at 7 pm Eastern, they – and some other memorabilia – are being sold as a Washington Ballet fundraiser.
If IMDb Could Figure Out A Way Around The Trolls, The Message Boards Wouldn’t Have To Die
No, IMDb, the conversation has not all moved to social media – even a social media administrator could tell you that: “There is a definite sense of community on the boards. You won’t be able to use the site in the same way.” But the site’s admins might (with reason) think that racist trolling has gone way too far. So as of today, Feb. 20, all of the content will disappear.