“A new annual playwriting award, providing $50,000 to an emerging writer and an additional $100,000 toward the production costs for mounting the recipient’s play, has been established by the foundation of Arthur Laurents, the Tony Award-winning Broadway director, playwright and librettist, and Tom Hatcher, his partner.”
Tag: 06.03.10
Alicia Alonso At Not-Yet-90
The legendary (and polarizing) Cuban ballerina “is either a sly fox of the highest degree or an endearing old lady who wears a scarf – ears covered – with the élan of Little Edie in Grey Gardens. In all likelihood she’s both; her demeanor can turn on a dime. … [She] is quite sharp with what seems to be a selective understanding of English depending on the question.”
Italian Courts Pursue Another American Curator
“According to a 14-page legal notice from the public prosecutor’s office in Rome, J. Michael Padgett, 56, antiquities curator at the Princeton University Museum of Art, is a focus of a criminal investigation of ‘the illegal export and laundering’ of Italian archaeological objects.”
When Russian Poets Did Stadium Tours
“The death on Tuesday of Andrei Voznesensky, a stirring poet of the post-Stalin ‘thaw era’ in the 1950s and early 1960s, caused many to recall a time when [poetry’s] reach was enormous. Voznesensky’s generation of poets, which included Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Bella Akhmadulina, declaimed their work in sports stadiums to overflow crowds.”