“CBC management is squarely to blame for allowing disgraced radio host Jian Ghomeshi to get away for years with inappropriate behaviour that included sexual harassment,” concluded an independent investigation by two employment lawyers.
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Cirque Du Soleil Is About To Be Sold
“Co-founder [and owner] Guy Laliberté sent an email to staff on Thursday saying that he had not yet wrapped up the company sale, after CBC/Radio-Canada and other media outlets reported American private equity firm TPG Capital and China’s Fosun will buy majority shares in Cirque du Soleil.”
Tennessee Williams On His Women, His Writer’s Block, And Whether It All Mattered
“[The playwright] tasked James Grissom with seeking out each of the women (and few men) who had inspired his work – Maureen Stapleton, Lillian Gish, Marlon Brando and others – so that he could ask them a question: had Tennessee Williams, or his work, ever mattered?” Here Grissom recounts his first meetings with Williams.
Misty Copeland Makes Cover Of Time Magazine
“For the first time in a generation a dancer has made the cover of Time magazine: Misty Copeland, the American Ballet Theater soloist, was chosen as one of the magazine’s ‘100 most influential people,’ and is featured on one of the five different covers for its upcoming issue.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 04.16.15
Are nonprofit arts organizations special?
AJBlog: For What It’s Worth Published 2015-04-16
Blossoms Are Early. Braff & Hyman Are On Time
AJBlog: RiffTides Published 2015-04-16
So you want to see a show?
AJBlog: About Last Night Published 2015-04-16
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Tribeca Film Festival Exlores New Forms Of Interactivity
Each turns its audience into a protagonist, and suggests new directions for storytelling that go beyond traditional cinema—while perhaps invigorating that medium. “It makes you realize that there’s a bigger toolbox out there.”
Netflix Signs Up Record Number Of New Subscribers In First Quarter
“The on-demand video company said Wednesday that it added a record 4.9 million customers from January to March, with more than half of that number coming from overseas. Netflix said its 62.3 million subscribers watched some 10 billion hours of programming during the first quarter.”
A Better Case For Supporting Movie Production With Tax Credits
“So, are tax credits a great way of supporting culture? Are they helping create Canadian films and Canadian video games? They may be, but that’s not really their purpose; their intention is simply to create jobs and thus generate a lot more tax revenue for government than was initially paid out.”
Do Smart People Worry More?
“The idea that worriers are cannier than average may just seem to make sense—a worried mind is a searching mind, and smarter people may have the cognitive agility to examine multiple angles of any situation, for better or worse.”
Let’s Just Drop The Term ‘Fringe Theatre’
Lyn Gardner: “Ditching the label ‘fringe’ would put all theatre-makers on an equal footing, wherever they work and in whatever form. It would stop the segmentation of audiences into those who do fringe and those who don’t. It would prevent grant-makers and funders from taking refuge in the labels, and saying ‘Well we don’t fund that kind of theatre, we only fund this kind of theatre’.”