“While Web tools using Form 990 are now in use, open data would spur many more tools and approaches, ones we cannot even imagine today.”
Tag: 03.10.13
Grateful Playwrights Give Farewell Salute To Royal Court’s Dominic Cooke
“There are too many playwrights to squeeze comfortably into a single photograph but we have invited 11 – a dramaturg’s dozen – to come and say goodbye. And it turns out that every one of them, with the exception of Bruce Norris (who is from Chicago), attended the Royal Court’s young writers programme or has had work showcased in the young writers festival.”
Benjamin Britten Didn’t Want To Do Young Boys, He Wanted To Be Them
Paul Griffiths: “Meanwhile, the tide of performances and critical studies goes on confirming how deeply his music was affected by his irresoluble personal quandary: the wish to be forever a boy among boys. … Britten’s desire for youth and innocence, to possess them not sexually but in his own being, became, though impossible in life, the source of an abundant creativity.”
How 3D Printing Is Revolutionizing Artist Design
“For some artists, 3-D printing has been a revelation. The ability to design and build objects layer by layer, rather than through traditional methods such as casting or handcrafting, has created a new level of freedom.”
Another Star Is Born? On Opening Night, L.A. Opera Understudy Goes On At Last Minute
Curtain time was 12 minutes away when soprano Elisabete Matos, set to sing Senta in the company’s new staging of Wagner’s Flying Dutchman, realized that she was developing a chest cold and, as conductor James Conlon put it, “was not breathing the way she needed to sing.” Enter the heroine …
Corgi Fired For Ignoring Helen Mirren As Elizabeth II
The great Dame is once again incarnating the Queen, this time on the West End in Peter Morgan’s The Audience. Her canine colleague was sacked after failing to cross the stage upon royal command at 16 consecutive preview performances.
The Piano You Can Lift With One Hand
“Aesthetically, it is a strange beast; futuristic black, ultra-clean, with a keyboard made from black silicon – it looks as if it were beamed to Earth from a fetish club in the future.”
What Do You Do When You’re The Volunteer Fundraising Organization For A Locked-Out Orchestra?
“It’s touchy being pals with people at loggerheads — the orchestra’s management and its locked-out musicians — without seeming to take sides. It’s also hard to drum up enthusiasm, never mind dollars, when a contract dispute has led to a concertless season.”
So Disney Commissioned A Documentary About …
Itself, of course. And its imagineers.
The Tradition Of Defining The Black Theatre Tradition
“In every generation young producers and artists seem to find a way to launch new initiatives that build access and support for artists of color, either on their own accord or within ‘mainstream’ institutions. The warning from this quick stroll through history is to stay clear of absolutes, for in each debate or conflict great contradictions arise.”