“More than 25 years after Roddy Doyle wrote The Commitments, the bestselling book-turned-movie is bound for London’s West End.”
Tag: 04.23.13
Google Founder Talks About The Power Of The Internet As An Idea
“Countries that have the Internet already are not going to turn it off. And so the power of freedom, the power of ideas will spread, and it will change those societies in very dramatic ways.”
China’s Film Industry Is Now A $15 Billion Industry
“China’s film and television business generated revenue of $15.5 billion, or 100 billion yuan in local currency, and supported more than 900,000 jobs in 2011, according to a new study by the Motion Picture Assn. and the China Film Distributors and Exhibitors Assn.”
The Traveling Poet (Life On The Road)
“Writing poetry is a solitary activity. Most of the time one has zero confidence in what one is doing… Public readings assure poets that there is an audience for poetry in this country and that Americans not only can make sense of their poems, but appear to actually like them.”
The YouTube Star With A Billion Views
“My perspective is to think, ‘I just have a lot of Internet friends,’ ” said the 26-year-old YouTube star. She acknowledges it is an odd kind of celebrity. She is a DIY digital entertainer who conceives of, stars in, shoots, edits and uploads her own videos — often in a single day.”
New Managing Director For Boston’s American Repertory Theater
“The American Repertory Theater has plucked its next managing director from off-Broadway: William Russo, currently the managing director of New York Theatre Workshop.”
Ex-Employee At Atlanta’s Woodruff Arts Center Pleads Guilty To Embezzlement
“[Ralph] Clark started working at the Woodruff Arts Center in 2004 as a heating and air conditioning mechanic. By the time he left, eight years later, he had risen through the ranks and embezzled $1.1 million from the city’s largest cultural organization.”
Candle Lighting In A New Jacobean Theatre? Bad Idea
“Shakespeare’s Globe plans ‘authentic’ illumination for its new indoor Jacobean playhouse – what next, bear-baiting before the play?”
Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale To Become A Ballet
The Royal Winnipeg Ballet will open its 2013-2014 season with “a new adaptation of The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. It’s a project that’s been in the works for eight years, with New York’s Lila York choreographing the dance to the music of James MacMillan.”
A New Museum On Mexico City’s Millionaires’ Row
The Jumex Collection, a five-story building designed by architect David Chippenfield to house the contemporary art collection of fruit juice magnate Eugenio López, will open in November – right next door to the Museo Soumaya, the museum built by billionaire Carlos Slim Helu.