“The commercial theater asks its audiences what they want to see and produces theater in response to those answers. We in the non-profit theater must lead audiences to what we think they should want to see.”
Tag: 05.21.09
Was Iranian Serial Killer Inspired By Agatha Christie?
“Police in Iran believe they have caught the country’s first female serial killer and are claiming she has disclosed a literary inspiration behind her attempts to evade detection: the crime novels of Agatha Christie.”
Turning Your Company Over To Another Choreographer
“Christopher House appears willing to relinquish control over the nine dancers (and two interns) in Toronto Dance Theatre in return for artistic growth. Last fall, he delivered them into the hands of New York post-modernist maven Deborah Hay, who introduced them to a new way of creating dance. Now, split into two groups, the dancers are working with Christoph Winkler and Felix Marchand, two choreographers from Berlin, to stretch their creative boundaries further still.”
Google Will Not Be Buying Any Newspapers
There goes another rescue fantasy. CEO Eric Schmidt says that “Google had looked at buying a newspaper but was ‘trying to avoid crossing the line’ between technology and content … More broadly, he added, Google had concluded that potential acquisition targets were too expensive or carried excessive liabilities.”
Wall Street Gets The Michael Moore Treatment
“The wealthy, at some point, decided they didn’t have enough wealth,” says he. “They wanted more – a lot more. So they systematically set about to fleece the American people out of their hard-earned money. Now, why would they do this? That is what I seek to discover in this movie.” The yet-untitled film opens Oct. 2.
Twitter The Mona Lisa (And Watch It Turn Cubist)
“Given Twitter’s 140 character limit, it might seem next to impossible to recreate something as complex as the Mona Lisa. […] But the complexity of the task didn’t faze [Mario] Klingemann, whose experimental image encoding technique translates the image into Chinese characters and spits out a version of the Mona Lisa that … Picasso would have loved.”
Mary Henry, 96, Launched Painting Career In Her 70s
“It’s a fairly normal curve for women artists, especially women of her generation, circumscribed by paternalistic dismissal and then clobbered, like everyone else, by the catastrophes of aging. But instead of fading into her seniority, Henry surfaced in her mid-70s with triumphant, joyful work … tough geometric forms filled with bright yet sour tonalities.”
Retired SF Symphony Exec Peter Pastreich To Head Philharmonia Baroque
In his two decades as the Symphony’s executive director, the 71-year-old Pastreich “shepherded an extensive expansion of the orchestra’s budget and endowment, oversaw the construction of Davies Symphony Hall, … and helped establish the Symphony as one of the nation’s leading orchestras.” His and the Philharmonia Baroque board’s goal “is to increase our presence in other markets.”
‘Enhanced Reality,’ Coming To A Smartphone Near You
“Simply, the technology allows you to point a phone at an object and see an enhanced version of reality on the screen – whether a mountain labelled with its height, a person tagged with their name, or celestial objects properly labelled in the night sky.[…] That’s powerful, but there is more to come, especially when these apps start to tap into social websites.”
Build Your Own Fallingwater – With Legos
The company “is releasing the almost ridiculously fitting Architecture series, beginning with the Frank Lloyd Wright Collection, six planned sets including the Guggenheim in New York and Fallingwater, the iconic cantilevered waterfall-house outside Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.”