“Heading into the final weekend of the 2013-14 calendar of show openings, Broadway musicals and plays are on track to set a record total gross of $1.27 billion for the season, an increase of 11 percent, the biggest bump since the 2008 recession.”
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Manuscript Of Rachmaninov Second Symphony Sells For £1.2 Million
“The 320-page score was presumed lost after its premiere in St Petersburg in 1908, until it was discovered in a private collection in 2004. It is thought to be the only surviving handwritten manuscript of the symphony in existence.”
Matthew Warchus Chosen To Replace Kevin Spacey As Leader Of Old Vic Theatre
Warchus, who is credited with having directed more than 70 shows in London and on Broadway, said he was honoured to be following Spacey’s “galvanising tenure”.
Unions Say More Than 2000 Performers Haven’t Collected Streaming Royalties
“After conducting an extensive crosscheck between their two databases, SAG-AFTRA and SoundExchange identified nearly 2,000 union members who are potentially eligible to receive royalties but haven’t registered to collect their money.”
The International Digital Library Is Here (But There Are Issues)
“All over the country research libraries are canceling subscriptions to academic journals, because they are caught between decreasing budgets and increasing costs. The logic of the bottom line is inescapable, but there is a higher logic that deserves consideration—namely, that the public should have access to knowledge produced with public funds.”