“Her all-encompassing radicalism, which never lost its bite, has inspired new generations of progressive theater makers struggling to find alternatives in a society that has grown only more thoroughly commercialized.”
Tag: 04.12.15
Can Computers Discover The Next Big Thing(s) In Music?
“Instead of trawling the back rooms of the country’s pubs for the next Ed Sheeran, what if ‘moneyball’ – the analytical, statistics-based approach successfully used to assemble a competitive sports team – could be adapted to pop music?”
Turns Out That LACMA Sculpture No Longer Belongs To LACMA, Or Any U.S. Museum
Norbert Kricke’s “Space Sculpture” is now (probably) installed at a Mercedes-Benz factory near Stuttgart, Germany.
Dear Theatre People (And Other Arts People): You *Have To* Be An Entrepreneur
“‘Why don’t universities make this a mandatory part of the curriculum?’ asked one performing arts student during one of my workshops. ‘Academic narcissism.’ I said without a beat.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs For 04.12.15
Doing old things in new ways: Geoff Hoyle’s “Lear’s Shadow” at The Marsh
AJBlog: Lies Like TruthPublished 2015-04-12
AJBlog: RiffTidesPublished 2015-04-11
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Toni Morrison Changed Publishing Forever
“During the years that she worked at Random House, she published books by Muhammad Ali, Henry Dumas, Angela Davis, Huey P. Newton, Toni Cade Bambara and Gayl Jones, whom she discovered in the 1970s. Jones’s manuscript was so impressive that when Morrison read it for the first time, uppermost in her mind, she once wrote, was ‘that no novel about any black woman could ever be the same after this.'” Oh, and then she started writing her own novels.
Moving “Fun Home”: Alison Bechdel Watches Her Life Unfold On Broadway
“I can’t even use the word surreal anymore, it’s so trite; it’s weird … I do understand that there’s a difference between the play and my life, but it is a very strange and permeable boundary. It’s some kind of hall-of-mirrors thing. There’s been this strange feedback effect.”
Chita Rivera, Back (And Upside-Down) On Broadway At 82
“Two hours before any preview performance of The Visit, the Kander and Ebb musical that opens this month at the Lyceum Theater, you can find its star, Chita Rivera, in her dressing room. Upside down.”