“What are often termed ‘irreconcilable artistic differences’ have surfaced between me and Voice arts editor Brian Parks and forced me to make the difficult decision to stop submitting reviews to the paper and its Web site. … What I write doesn’t seem like arts criticism as he defines it. To put it more baldly: I do not write enough strongly negative reviews.”
Tag: 06.01.11
Deborah Warner Responds To Critics Of Her Updated School For Scandal
“I know the version of this play you recognise and miss. That version was great for its time but – and this is important – it might not be right for now. The job of director and actor is to test these plays against now; if they lose charm in some critics’ eyes, then maybe the world has changed.”
Hans Keilson, Author And Psychologist For Holocaust Orphans, Dead At 101
“Before he became an international literary sensation last year at age 100, Hans Keilson was better known as a psychoanalyst and an expert in childhood trauma.”
Romance Novel Fans Defend Their Genre From Psychologist
Romance novelists and readers have come together to defend their chosen genre against the accusation that “women can become as dangerously unbalanced by these books’ entrancing but distorted messages as men can be by the distorted messages of pornography”.
An Illiterate London? So Says The Study…
“One in three kids in the city say they own no books, one in four leaves primary school unable to read or write properly, and one in five leaves secondary school without being able to read and write with confidence.”
One-Fifth Of England’s Arts Organizations Are ‘Weak’ On Finances
“Almost a fifth of the organisations in Arts Council England’s new national portfolio were rated as ‘weak’ for financial sustainability … Despite being one of ACE’s three key criteria, 16% of arts organisations were rated as weak on financial sustainability, with 68% rated as good and only 16% rated as strong.”
Florida Orchestra To Begin Multiyear Cultural Exchange With Cuba
The Tampa Bay area ensemble “and Cuban musicians will start making music together under a new cultural exchange program that will have Tampa area musicians performing in Havana in September.”
Bass Giorgio Tozzi, 88
“A singer whose voice charmed millions of listeners even if they didn’t know his name, … Tozzi claimed a wide repertoire, from the title role in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro to Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov … Tozzi was also very comfortably a crossover artist before that term existed,” known for his performances in the musicals South Pacific and The Most Happy Fella.
Wheeldon’s Mad Hatter, Tap-Dancing Through Wonderland
Steven McRae and Robert Stephen are “fellow members of a rare fraternity; ballet dancers who can tap like demons.” They sharing the role of the Mad Hatter in Christopher Wheeldon’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Wheeldon choreographed the role with McRae’s tap skills in mind.
The Atlantic Worldwide Twitter Book Club
“The Blind Assassin by … Margaret Atwood has been tapped as the inaugural entry for a new, Twitter-based book club. Spearheaded by The Atlantic magazine and Northeastern University journalism professor Jeff Howe, 1book140 aims to spark ‘global, participatory’ conversation about the selected titles.”