The company is “testing the market in Russia with Zarkana, a highly acrobatic show geared to a country where people love the circus. The $57 million that Cirque du Soleil will invest in the production in the Kremlin, Russia’s seat of power, is the most the company has invested in a non-permanent show.”
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Amazon’s Netflix-Rival Streaming Service Goes Live
“The online retail giant on Tuesday began offering U.S. subscribers to its $79-per-year Amazon Prime shipping service the additional benefit of access to 5,000 movies and television shows that can be streamed at no additional cost on computers and certain other Internet-connected devices.”
Netflix Strikes Deal With CBS to Stream Classic TV Series
“CBS Corp. has cut a deal with Netflix to give its customers access to classic TV including Star Trek, Cheers, Twin Peaks and Family Ties … along with the various other movies and television product Netflix offers for streaming, at prices that start at $7.99 per month.”
A Rival Spider-Man Show Comes to New York
“Our goal isn’t to tear down Julie Taymor or parody her production,” said composer and improv comedian Justin Moran of his new show, The Spidey Project: With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility, which opens one day before Taymor’s ill-starred colossus. “Our goal is to do what she should have done in the first place, and that’s just make a really good musical.”
Fan Letters to Dead Writers
“The lack of forwarding addresses didn’t stop a group of acclaimed writers and poets from penning fan letters to their deceased literary heroes. Thirteen such missives fill the very first pages of the very first issue of The New Guard,” a new literary journal.
Henry Miller’s Last Wife Speaks
“For Hoki Tokuda, the whole crazy affair was like an inside joke her ex-husband, the late author Henry Miller, would have found irresistible – if it weren’t all true.” This Japanese woman, nearly 50 years younger than the famously satyric author, married and hung onto him for for 11 years, though she wouldn’t sleep with him, wouldn’t kiss him and wouldn’t read Tropic of Cancer.
Why Do People Obsess Over the Mona Lisa’s Identity? Germaine Greer Wants to Know
“Mona Lisa has been securely identified by Vasari as Lisa Gherardini, wife of the Florentine silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo … There is therefore no call for further speculation about who the original of the Mona Lisa might be, and yet it goes on.”
Pop Videos Get The Rock Ballet Bug
“Since the advent of MTV directors have needed to develop a visual language as well as an aural one,. What’s interesting at the moment are the genuinely interesting collaborations between pop and dance which are making it to the stage. It’s like any contemporary artists working alongside each other: they will tend to work with their friends. It’s like when Diaghilev would commission Stravinsky. Maybe today he would think about Radiohead.”
Egyptian Antiques Minister: We Got Off Lightly, Considering
“Those who broke into the museum were professionals looking for gold. And it was not just in Cairo; there were also two burial chambers broken into in Sakkara and Abusir, and there the damage was visible. Overall, we have to thank God that we got off relatively lightly.”
How To Teach Creative Writing?
Can you teach writing? Americans think you can, broadly speaking. They are happy to attempt a definition of good writing. In the UK, we are a bit more sceptical