Well on its way to building “a new open stage auditorium for the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, better facilities for performers and audiences, a rooftop restaurant and a riverside café and walkway,” the Royal Shakespeare Company finds itself a little short of cash. So cast members are hitting up audiences.
Tag: 05.25.10
Exhaustion To Keep Claudio Abbado From La Scala Return
“Mr. Abbado, 76, suffered from stomach cancer a decade ago, but La Scala’s spokesman, Carlo Maria Cella, said that tests showed no return of the illness. He said that the conductor had checked into the hospital suffering from extreme fatigue and weight loss after conducting the Berlin Philharmonic in three concerts this month.”
Eli Broad Sizes Up International Architects For His Museum
No matter that he doesn’t have the go-ahead yet for the downtown Los Angeles site. “Even as he continues to negotiate with city and county officials,” he is courting “blue-chip architects. Of the six architects asked to prepare preliminary museum designs this month for the site on the corner of Grand Avenue and 2nd Street, four are winners of the Pritzker Prize….”