“Thousands of towns and cities around the country and beyond are participating in the second annual World Book Night, when some 2.5 million free books are expected to be donated, whether at a children’s shelter in Texas or a crisis center in Tampa, Fla.”
Tag: 04.23.12
Warning: Regional Theatres Need To Walk Line Between Relevance, Viability
“There is a conundrum. To remain relevant, the theatre must be more artistically adventurous. But the radical new methods appear less likely to throw up a major commercial hit.”
Egyptian Popular Culture Slow To Progress After Mubarak
“When Mubarak fell in February 2011, artists like Salama hoped that stories that had long been kept under wraps could now blossom and a citizenry that had been lapping up fluff might turn to more substantive fare. But as with many of the country’s political changes these shifts have happened unevenly as each entertainment realm has made progress at its own, sometimes turtle-like pace.”
Theatre That Nurtured Helen Mirren And Daniel Craig Making Serious Austerity Cuts
The National Youth Theatre “will unveil an overhaul of its operations this week, potentially including job cuts and the closure of several productions. This comes after the Arts Council had to step in with an emergency £200,000 grant to allow the organisation to meet its financial obligations.”
Nostalgia On Schedule: ‘The Golden Forty-Year Rule’
“So it seems time to pronounce a rule about American popular culture: the Golden Forty-Year Rule. The prime site of nostalgia is always whatever happened, or is thought to have happened, in the decade between forty and fifty years past. (And the particular force of nostalgia, one should bear in mind, is not simply that it is a good setting for a story but that it is a good setting for you.)”