04.13.15 – Page 2 – ArtsJournal Wayback

How Do You Function As Director Of Someone Else’s Museum? (Especially Eli Broad’s)

“Being the director of Eli Broad’s new museum might strike some people as a contradiction in terms. … How could someone running Mr. Broad’s private museum really have any power?” Joanne Heyler, however, is just the person to pull it off.

Indians, Iranians, And Gay Penguins: The 2014 List Of Library Books Tried Hardest To Ban Is Here

Leading the pack in attracting misguided outrage was Sherman Alexie’s young-adult title The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, followed by Marjane Satrapi’s girl-comes-of-age-in-Iran graphic memoir Persepolis and Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell’s And Tango Makes Three, about the same-sex pair of penguins who raised a chick at the Central Park Zoo.

Theatre In The West End Is In A Golden Age, Says Top Producer

Sonia Friedman: “I can stand here alongside a lot of colleagues doing the same job, saying the West End is as good as it can ever be, and it’s probably the best it’s ever been right now.”

Bringing Genuine Vaudeville To The Metropolitan Opera

“What’s a vaudeville consultant doing in an opera house? It turns out that not just anyone can choreograph a decent slosh routine, a messy staple of slapstick in which whipped cream, custard or shaving cream is wielded as a projectile, hopefully to comic effect.” So David McVicar decided to make the itinerant clowns of Pagliacci into a traveling vaudeville troupe, he turned to this man.

The Ballerina Who Earned Her Starring Broadway Role In The Shower

The star-to-be was the Royal Ballet’s Leanne Cope, the show was An American in Paris, the director was her old colleague Christopher Wheeldon. And – sorry! – neither nudity nor running water was involved.

Eduardo Galeano, Who Inspired Latin American Leftists Through His Writing, Has Died At 74

“His best known book, ‘The Open Veins of Latin America,; published in 1971, described the historical legacy of the Spanish colonial era and capitalist plunder that followed it. He spurned conventional narrative in favor of anecdotes highlighting, among others, enslaved indigenous Bolivian miners, devastated Brazilian rain forests and polluted Venezuelan oil fields.”

Günter Grass Dead At 87

“With his novels, plays, articles and speeches, Mr. Grass became one of Germany’s foremost intellectuals and gadflies. The themes that consumed his literature – guilt, atonement and hypocrisy – were also central to his political commentary. He could be shrill and polarizing, a self-professed ‘troublemaker’ who cultivated what he described as a ‘tendency to bring out into the open what had too long been swept under the carpet.'”

Angela Lansbury, At Long (Long, Long) Last, Wins An Olivier Award

“Thousands of years have gone by and we still have this thing called live theatre – and the reason is that we need to be able to compare ourselves to what we see up there and judge ourselves as human beings.”

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