Boston’s Shakespeare on the Common will be sharply cut back next summer from three weeks to one. The production will also be smaller. “For more than a decade, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s run on the Common has grown, both in cost and audience size, attracting about 100,000 people last year.”
Tag: 03.03.07
A Smaller LA Times Book Review?
“Four months after the editor and publisher left the Times in protest — rather than proceed with cutbacks ordered by the paper’s owner in Chicago, the Tribune Co. — media watchers are reacting to news that the Sunday Book Review, a stand-alone section for 30 years, may soon be combined with the opinion section, Currents, and run in Saturday editions.”
Take That, Atheism
“Why is the new wave of books on atheism getting such a drubbing? The criticism is not primarily, it should be pointed out, from the pious, which would hardly be noteworthy, but from avowed atheists as well as scientists and philosophers writing in publications like The New Republic and The New York Review of Books, not known as cells in the vast God-fearing conspiracy.”
City Opera To Stay Home
New York City Opera has spent a lot of time and money looking for a new home. But with the signing of Gerard Mortier as the company’s new director, the issue has melted away. Mortier declares the company will stay at Lincoln Center. So is this just an obvious conclusion? And will Mortier find a way to make it work?
The Case For Publishers In A Digital World
“Are publishers any use? What reasons do they have to exist? What will they do in the future? And, crucially, has the book entered the last phase of its physical life? Publishers are a bridge between the market and writers. While providing an expert route to creating economic value in the work (ie the author’s work is rewarded), they can also act as a sustaining and supporting partner.”
Spielberg Finds Stolen Rockwell
A stolen Norman Rockwell painting has been found in Steven Spielberg’s collection. “Spielberg purchased the painting in 1989 from a legitimate dealer and didn’t know it was stolen until his staff spotted its image last week on an FBI Web site listing stolen works of art, the bureau said in a statement.”