“The Smithsonian will begin closing certain galleries on a rolling basis come May 1 because of across-the-board budget cuts known as sequestration.”
Tag: 03.17.13
Sarasota Opera Abandons American Works Project
“Launched with great fanfare in 2011, Sarasota Opera is pulling the plug on its American Classics Series after just three years. Despite critical acclaim and much nationwide praise for the company’s adventurous initiative, Sarasota Opera’s new executive director Richard Russell says that local audiences have not embraced the American project.”
Enda Walsh On How He Ended Up Writing A Musical (That Would Be Once)
“We don’t do musicals in Ireland. Well, not much. We like to keep our actors and musicians separate at all times. In separate counties, even. There is possibly a musical theatre company hidden on Sherkin Island doing a production of Wicked right now, but they haven’t been found yet. And when they do find them, it will be a heavy dose of Samuel Beckett for those grinning fools.”
Poetry’s Awkward Dance With E-Books
“It does seem like some technologies are better suited for some genres. Maybe the Web is really well suited to poetry and the Kindle is really well suited to prose.”
Filmmaking As 24/7 Brand
“We’ve all been turned into marketers and brands. . . . You’re basically running your mom-and-pop film business, but the name of that business is your name, and the idea is to build the brand. It’s very bizarre, and it’s certainly not anything we talked about in film school.”
Does Technology Have A Place In Orchestras?
“The point is simply to get people to hear the music. Technology is just a way to make that happen.”
Heaven’s Gate – After 33 Years, Does It Make Sense?
Manohla Dargis: “Watching Heaven’s Gate for the first time in February I understood how it could mean so many seemingly contradictory things to so many people and why so many dissimilar conclusions could all feel true.”
Getting To Know London’s Pub Theatre Scene
“Since Shakespeare’s time, greasepaint-loving taverns across the city have adapted their spare rooms to host performances for patrons who like to catch a show or two without moving too far from their favorite bar taps. A permanent fringe movement, this eclectic pub-theater scene thrives, with Londoners and savvy visitors regularly squeezing into 50-seat studios for dramas, comedies, musicals and even operas.”
Readers Sue Lance Armstrong Over Lies In His Books
In their complaint, the litigants claimed they would not have purchased Armstrong’s autobiographies “It’s Not About the Bike” (2000) and “Every Second Counts” (2003) had they known that the books were built on a foundation of lies.
Pritzker-Winner Toyo Ito – No Celebrity
“His inviting, even voluptuous forms come from a painstaking attention to circumstances. He topped sober marble cubes in a funeral hall in Japan’s Gifu prefecture with an undulating roof that seems to dance.”