03.16.14 – ArtsJournal Wayback

Here’s The Most Overused Word On The Internet

Whereas basically and well are relatively harmless tics that crowd our sentences,actually has an attitude.

The Archdiocese of New York Gets Into Downtown Theater

This spring in Manhattan’s Noho neighborhood, the Catholic archdiocese will open a two-theater, four-studio complex named after Archbishop Fulton Sheen. Says the Sheen Center’s director, “We had been thinking that we wanted a place to showcase Christian humanism – the true, the good and the beautiful.”

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Last of the Beats, to Publish His Travel Journals

The poet, publisher, and co-founder of the legendary City Lights bookstore, “at 94 one of the last living links to the Beat generation, has sold his travel journals to Liveright Publishing, a division of W.W. Norton, which plans to publish them in September 2015.”

Greece Selling Off Ancient Cultural Heritage (And Citizens Are Protesting)

“The decision to sell off public assets invested with such historic significance has not only angered anti-austerity leftists. It has raised howls of protest from reform-minded conservatives with many wondering whether Greece is finally enacting what Germany’s tabloid press has long taunted it to do: sell off its cultural heritage to pay off its monumental debt.”

To Be Or Not To Be – Oregon Shakespeare Festival Debates How Much Bard

“The balance of Shakespeare to non-Shakespeare, and of “traditional” to contemporary staging, will always be a matter of conflict in Ashland, because the interested parties, from directors and actors to the audiences who keep the place alive, have such differing likes and dislikes and opinions about what’s important and what is ultimately fleeting and trivial.”

How Does New York Celebrate A Century Of Grand Central Terminal?

With dueling quilts, of course, from 25 different states.

The Faster You Die, The More Popular The Video Game

“Apparently life isn’t tough enough for those of us who seek amusement in failure’s premiere form of entertainment. Taxes, relationships and health troubles not stressful enough? Play an arduous video game that you’ll fail at in seconds. Millions of people do.”

By The Way, Rosebud Was … An Indicator Of The Value Of Spoilers

“There has to be a statute of limitations established; and we have to stop being over-precious as well, because this spoiler sensitivity is really revoltingly self-centred. Personally, I’m always asking people about films, and I now have to tell a lie (‘No, I’ll never see it. What happens?’) – just to get the goods.”

American Ballet To Lose Its New York ‘Nutcracker’

“Brooklyn’s loss, though, will be California’s gain: The production will go west in 2015 to begin an annual run at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, Calif., where snowflakes — of both the onstage and offstage variety — are considerably rarer.”

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