“By leasing space at the Westbeth complex starting July 1, the Graham company and its school will be able to consolidate activities that have been spread throughout the city, including space for rehearsals, classes, offices, archives and scenery.”
Tag: 04.16.12
Kevin Puts’ Music Pulitzer Marks Rare Opera Win
Very few operas have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize since the prize was established in 1943.
Broadway Box Office Bulging
“Spring has clearly sprung on Broadway, with a rising tide of spring-break tourists helping to fuel a strong week that saw every single show in the top 10 break the $1 million mark.”
US Supreme Court To Reconsider Copyright Reach
“The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide the global reach of U.S. copyright law, in a case testing whether an overseas purchaser of a copyrighted work may resell it in the United States without the copyright holder’s permission.”
Pulitzer Board Declines To Award Prize For Fiction; Book Publishers Are Angry
“Days after the Department of Justice made the blockbuster announcement that it was suing five of the biggest book publishers in the business, the Pulitzer Prize board dropped its own bombshell on Monday: for the first time in 35 years, there would be no Pulitzer winner for fiction.”
Boston Globe Film Writer Wesley Morris Wins Pulitzer Prize For Criticism
“Boston Globe film critic Wesley Morris was awarded the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for criticism Monday, for essays and reviews that embodied what Pulitzer judges called ‘smart, inventive film criticism, distinguished by pinpoint prose and an easy traverse between the art house and big-screen box office’.”
Kevin Puts’s Opera Silent Night Wins Pulitzer For Music
“Puts’ opera is adapted from the 2005 movie Joyeux Noël, which was nominated for an Academy Award for foreign-language film. Like the movie, the opera depicts an unexpected truce negotiated by Scottish, French and German officers on Christmas Eve [in 1914].” The work’s premiere was at Minnesota Opera in November.
Barnes Foundation’s General Counsel Brett Miller Found Dead
“Just weeks before the opening of the Barnes Foundation’s new museum in downtown Philadelphia, the institution’s general counsel Brett Miller has died. His body was found this weekend at his home, a spokesman for the museum has confirmed.”
English National Opera Moves Partly Back Toward Resident Company Model
“From next season, this group of a dozen of the best of our younger singers – all British or British-trained – will become a sort of core resource for ENO, each of them assigned a bespokely tailored [sic] programme of roles over two or three seasons.”
Mark Rylance To Premiere HisOwn New Play At Guthrie
“Mark Rylance has cribbed from the work of Louis Jenkins long enough. Having twice recited compositions by Mr. Jenkins, the mischievous poet of Duluth, Minn., in lieu of more traditional acceptance speeches at the Tony Awards, Mr. Rylance will give him proper credit on a new play they have written together and which will make its debut at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis next year.”