“In many ways, we’ll have to start from scratch. So why not learn from this moment and rebuild our community on a stronger foundation? Why not use this opportunity to enact the desires, the dreams, the radical changes that we haven’t been bold enough to voice before? Why not reevaluate the systems and structures we’ve long seen as immutable? We talked to 10 leaders from across the field about how they’d radically reimagine the dance world.” – Dance Magazine
Tag: 04.16.20
Netflix Is Now Worth More Than ExxonMobil
With demand for its content soaring as people are self-isolating due to COVID, the streaming giant’s total market value on Wall Street has risen to $196 billion. Meanwhile, with demand for its product collapsing as people avoid going anywhere, the oil giant — the most valuable company in the world in 2013, is watching its stock price slump. – The Guardian
Actor Brian Dennehy, 81
“Standing 6-foot-3, Mr. Dennehy had a booming voice and an often intimidating screen presence. … [He] was celebrated for his work as a character actor in Hollywood and on television, where he earned six Emmy nominations. But he received even greater acclaim for his performances on the stage, starring in revivals of classic plays including O’Neill’s The Iceman Cometh, Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard and Bertolt Brecht’s Life of Galileo,” as well as the two productions for which he won Tony Awards, Miller’s Death of a Salesman and O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night. “‘If it doesn’t scare me,’ he once said of theatrical roles, ‘I’m not interested.'” – The Washington Post
Can The US Postal Service Be Saved?
The battle over the Postal Service has reached a critical stage. Now, others are stepping forward with suggestions for saving the agency that would utterly transform it, from privatizing the USPS to nationalizing Amazon. – CityLab
Theatre World Snapshot: TCG Issues Report On Virus Impact
Bleak of course (how could it not be with all the cancellations?). On the other hand, reading through the data gives a sense of where the people who run theatres think they’re headed. – Theatre Communications Group
How Vermont’s National Guard Army Band Did The Impossible And Built A Hospital In Four Days Last Week
The story of how about 70 National Guardsmen managed to transform a convention center into an alternate health-care facility in mere days shows a state community coming together to get ahead of the pandemic at a time when the federal response is faltering. – The Atlantic
Not Only Is Albinoni’s Adagio A Movie Cliché, It’s A Total Forgery
A musicologist named Remo Giazotto wrote a monograph on Albinoni in which he claimed to have discovered manuscript fragments by the Venetian Baroque composer, fragments from which he reconstructed the overworked now-famous Adagio. “It sounds too good to be true. And it is.” Cinema and early music maven Donald Greig (who for many years sang with the Tallis Scholars) gives us the real story. – The Guardian