No, seriously. People love their Hockney, and he returns the favor: “The vast audience that his retrospective has attracted is sure to please Hockney, who has always been an advocate for his art being not for a small elite.”
Tag: 03.24.17
This Actress Uses A Wheelchair And Is Playing Laura In ‘Glass Menagerie’ – Exploitation Or Progress?
Broadway audiences are used to perfectly abled bodies, as are reviewers, which might be why some reviewers are having a hard time with Madison Ferris’ Laura. But, despite a few Off-Broadway and other companies having better representation, on Broadway, actors with visible disabilities “remain a rare occurrence, and as a result Broadway remains unrepresentative of the full range of humanity.”
Elfriede Jelinek Is A Nobel Laureate – And Her Latest Play Takes On The Notoriously Thin-Skinned Current President Of The United States
The Austrian playwright and novelist wrote a new play (“an attack on the Trump aesthetic: the gold, the plush furniture”) for the times. It’s coming to NY, and here’s the description, from the play’s translator: “This seer with bleeding eyes sends Trump through a shattered looking glass where Jelinek examines him through the distorted mirrors of the heroes of Western culture: from Oedipus to Abraham, Isaac and Jesus, to Martin Heidegger, who attempted to lead the Führer.”
People In Theatre Say They Can’t Talk About Mental Health Issues, Or They’ll Lose Work
One director says that “The industry needs to begin addressing it very seriously, so that we all have decent guidelines, and so that performers who do have a history of mental health issues and may enter a crisis during the time they’re spending with you have some recourse.”
The Eerie Perfection Of ‘Annie’
A theory about why the 1982 movie, which is considered “bad” by most film critics, fascinates and educates young children, even though the themes are hardly childlike: “The possibility of being a single being, alone in the world, was deeply fascinating to me. Annie, the protagonist of the film, makes hard decisions several times in the movie. She’s the moral center of a film that is deeply, complicatedly female driven.”
The Africa Center Is Finished, But It Can’t Open Its Doors Without A Lot More Money
With a new board president, the former Museum for African Art is also pitching a new simulation of what it will look like inside – if it can raise the money.
Will Hollywood’s Writers Strike Again?
The Writers’ Guild of America has asked its members to authorize a strike, but that doesn’t mean one will happen. “The move came after what the committee described as an “unacceptable” series of ‘noes’ from AMPTP studio negotiators over the last two weeks of talks about a new three-year deal.”
The Man Who Discovered That Hemingway Spied For The Soviets
“I was a traditional product of the Cold War. … There was little sympathy for Communism in our house. So I felt like le Carré’s character George Smiley, who learns of yet another betrayal: I felt like I had taken an elbow deep in the gut.”
Do The Blues Still Stand For Authenticity? A British Novelist Wants To Know
Hari Kunzru takes a road trip through the Deep South to figure it out. “It is extraordinary music, if you can really hear it. I’ve been making playlists of songs originally recorded on 78rpm shellac discs in the years before the second world war, songs that sounded like the work of ghosts. The voices of the old singers were distant in time, muffled by crackle and hiss, and yet somehow immediate.”
That Time They Cancelled A Reality TV Show But Just Didn’t Tell The People In It
They only showed four shows – the last in August. But ten people just emerged from “an uninhabited private estate that the Ministry of Defense used as a training ground during World War II, The Radio Times of London reported. A six-foot fence was erected on three sides of the estate, with the fourth side bordered by the sea.”