Rupert Goold Says The American Model Of Creating New Musicals Is Better Than The British One

The English director, “whose production of Made in Dagenham is currently running in the West End, said that, unlike the US, the UK’s musical theatre scene is ‘led by a producing model that is dictated by the size of our theatres’ and added that musicals should originate from writers and composers who have stories they need to tell.”

The Problem With The Enlightenment(s)

“The greatness of the Enlightenment lies less in its ideals, than in our efforts to realize them. The tragedy of the Enlightenment lies there too. … It was a set of abstract philosophical ideals, but it was also a lived historical experience, full of ordinary disappointments and irregularities” – it was, like a centaur, an impossible combination. “We know what a centaur should look like, but we never see one in real life.”

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Arts organizations and the quest for data
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Buyer of Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi Identified
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Hard Times at Haverford: Recent Travails of Daniel Weiss, Metropolitan Museum’s Incoming President
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Charlie Parker, 8/29/20 – 3/12/55
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Jazz, by the numbers
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Record Global Movie Box Office In 2014 Fueled By Huge Surge In China

“Global box-office revenue climbed to $36.4 billion, according to an annual report Wednesday from the Motion Picture Assn. of America. And much of the growth came from one country: China. The world’s most populous nation saw its box-office revenue jump 34% to a staggering $4.8 billion last year, making it the first foreign market to cross the $4-billion threshold.”

Here’s How Big Los Angeles’ Creative Economy Is

“The report compiled figures on jobs and pay from 2013 for a dozen creative industries that include not just arts and entertainment but also advertising, publishing and three manufacturing and product sales fields: fashion, furniture and toys. Thus defined, the report said, creative sector payrolls accounted for 406,900 jobs in L.A. and Orange counties in 2013 — 12.5% of the region’s economy as a whole.”