“[The plans] for a £19.3 million redevelopment of the company’s historic home … will see the Theatre Royal and surrounding buildings transformed into a flexible complex with up to ten performance spaces.”
Tag: 05.12.10
Back From the Depths: Robert Downey Jr. Vs. Mickey Rourke
“Yet while Downey emerged from his struggles with addiction much as he entered them – wry, charming, good-looking – Rourke returned from his longer odyssey of booze, boxing, reconstructive surgery, and God knows what else as a kind of magnificent wreckage, an epic cautionary tale.”
A Brief Primer On Conductor-Orchestra Relations
The players of the Richardson (TX) Symphony have gone public with complaints about being paid late. The response (in part) from maestro Anshel Brusilow, in rehearsal and on tape: “People are starving to death and you’ve got a job, and you’re a little late being paid so you’re upset … well, wake up, get a life!”
San Francisco Celebrates Shanghai With A Great Big Copper Buddha
“Zhang Huan’s colossal installation Three Heads Six Arms is striking, bizarre and fairly overwhelming.”
Being Burgled, Ayckbourn Mistook Thief For Houseguest
“The scene belonged in one of his plays. Famous dramatist encounters burglar in his home, assumes the intruder is a house guest, smiles benignly and wanders past. Bemused criminal says quiet prayer of thanks before stealing jewellery worth thousands of pounds.”
John Patrick Shanley On Watching Others Direct His Plays
“I’ve had the humiliating experience over and over again that whenever I do a show and years go by and I see somebody else’s production – it can be kids just out of college – I always see something in it that’s better than what I did.”
Lecturing On Free Speech, Muhammad Cartoonist Attacked
“Witnesses said the violence broke out a few minutes into [Lars] Vilks’ lecture about the limits of artistic freedom, when he showed a film by an Iranian artist about Islam and homosexuality. A young man leaped from his front-row seat and tried to attack Vilks, police and the artist said.”
Morgan Library Prepares For ‘A Noninvasive Restoration’
The Morgan Library & Museum, which recently underwent a $106 million renovation and expansion by Renzo Piano, “is embarking on a $4.5 million project that will gently restore one portion of the old Morgan that was not touched by Mr. Piano: the building designed by Charles McKim in 1906 to house J. P. Morgan’s personal office and library.”
On View: WWII Art Made By Interned Japanese Americans
“In Washington, D.C, the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery is exhibiting art and other objects created in [internment] camps — a grim yet handsome reminder of a dark chapter of American history.”
Why Pretty Much Everything Ought To Be 40% Cheaper
“Six-dollar movie nights have completely changed the way I interact with the world. I used to give the saxophonist in Central Park a buck when he rasped his way through ‘The Girl From Ipanema.’ Now I’ve cut back to 62 cents.”