“Schemes such as tickets for a fiver and free tickets may well have attracted young professionals to theatre but its done little to reach out to ethnically diverse audiences.”
Tag: 03.08.11
Norman Foster Takes On Kowloon In Massive Cultural Project
“The firm has won a tightly contested international competition to masterplan the ambitious new West Kowloon cultural district, a 40-hectare site of reclaimed land on the Kowloon waterfront that will host no fewer than 17 major cultural venues, including an opera house (watch out, Guangzhou), a museum of modern art known as M+, a 15,000-seat arena and an art school.”
HarperCollins’ Bizarre Library E-Book Lending Justification
“Whether a HarperCollins book has the circulatory vigour to cope with 26 checkouts or 200, it’s bizarre to argue that this finite durability is a feature that we should carefully import into new media. It would be like assuming the contractual obligation to attack the microfilm with nail-scissors every time someone looked up an old article.”
Unusual Model: Australian String Quartet As Arts Institution
“The addition of two new musicians will mean the quartet will soon have had 18 members since its establishment 25 years ago. The current line-up was formed following the controversial resignation of all the players in 2006.”
Need A Conductor? Call The Met
“In a spate of recent conductor cancellations that has hit Boston and Philadelphia, a resource has emerged where many might not have thought to look – the Metropolitan Opera.”
Spider-Man Producers Tell Julie Taymor to Accept Help or Leave
“The producers of Broadway’s Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark were negotiating on Monday with their director, Julie Taymor, for her to work with a newly expanded creative team to fix the critically derided $65 million musical or possibly leave the show.”