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Tag: 06.07.17
A Brief Seven-Year History Of ‘Dear Evan Hansen’
“What follows are some highlights, beginning with the first private airing of the efforts of Pasek, Paul, Levenson and all their collaborators. It’s a shorthand mapping of Dear Evan Hansen‘s march to critical and popular acclaim and its position as one of the more remarkable shows in recent musical-theater history.”
Doing ‘Daily Show’-Style Satire On The Russia Today Network Has, Well, Certain Limits
Lee Camp, an “acerbic left-wing comic,” hosts a weekly show called Redacted Tonight on RT America, the Russian-funded cable network. Jason Zinoman looks at the show and its host – and at Camp’s visible discomfort when asked about the one American political issue that his counterparts make hay with but he doesn’t touch.
A ‘Nondenominational Leader’ At This Year’s Ojai Music Festival
“The annual gathering [in Southern California] is seen as a litmus test, suggesting where contemporary Western art music is headed. [Vijay] Iyer is the first jazz musician – and the rare artist of color – to serve as music director, a position that rotates every year. He has paid less attention to the festival’s history than to the opportunity it presents.”
‘Piddling But Priceless’ – Tales Of The Small Regional Grants From The NEA And What They Accomplish
Joanna Walters visits a choreographer in Ohio who created dances based on ailing seniors’ life stories, the director of a literary center in Idaho that gives writing classes and workshops to low-income kids, an award-winning poet and novelist in New Mexico whose early-career NEA grant kept her and her husband off food stamps, and the community arts center in Florida that taught the writer of the Oscar-winning film Moonlight.
Charles Simmons, Novelist And Satirist, Dead At 92
“[His] five critically acclaimed novels included a savage sendup of The New York Times Book Review, where he had worked as an editor for three decades.”
Grand Rapids Ballet’s Patricia Barker Headed To New Zealand
“Former Pacific Northwest Ballet star and current artistic director of Grand Rapids Ballet, Patricia Barker, will become the Royal New Zealand Ballet’s twelfth artistic director and only the second female director in its 64-year history.”
Top Posts From AJBlogs 06.07.17
The problem with problems
If you work in the arts in higher education (or any education, for that matter), you are likely talking or hearing more about “complex problems,” or perhaps “wicked problems.” These are shorthand for … read more
AJBlog: The Artful Manager Published 2017-06-07
Old world order
It’s hard to dismiss someone who looks you in the eye and tells you their truth. We were in the front row for Atlas des Kommunismus at the Gorki Theatre in Berlin, so the … read more
AJBlog: Performance Monkey Published 2017-06-07
After Two Decades, Arundhati Roy Releases Her Second Novel
“Roy became the first Indian woman to win the prestigious Booker Prize with her 1997 work, which sold around 8m copies and turned the young author into a star of the literary world.”
After 33 Years, Off-Broadway’s Pearl Theatre Files Bankruptcy And Closes
The Off Broadway troupe’s demise reflected both financial pressures faced by many small performing arts organizations these days, and a series of missteps that the Pearl had made.