England’s Free Theatre Ticket Program For Young People To Be Cut Back

“‘A Night Less Ordinary,’ Arts Council England’s free ticket scheme for under-26 year olds, is to be ‘curtailed’ under plans unveiled by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport to make £73 million of savings. … [Many] of the theatres taking part in the project are already signed up for two years, ending early in 2011.”

Buenos Aires Bedlam: Cleaning Up The Mess At The Renovated Teatro Colón

As the legendary opera house “reopens in a limited season after a seemingly interminable eight years of upheaval, including three years of complete closure, the feeling for many is more of outrage than affection. … Like much else in volatile Argentina, … the project has lurched from crisis to crisis, plagued by grandstanding, cronyism and economic mismanagement.”

Plot To Cash In On Stolen First Folio Outlined In Court

“Calling unannounced at [the Folger Shakespeare Library], the 53-year-old pressed reticent academics to back his claim that the 387-year-old treasure was previously unknown, kept in a box by the mother of a major in Fidel Castro’s army.” In reality, a prosecutor said, the man “allegedly forced locks at a sparsely attended exhibition in Durham to steal the book 10 years earlier.”

Alberta’s Culture Minister: ‘Why Do I Fund So Much Crap?’

Lindsay Blackett on homegrown talent: “I sit here as a government representative for film and television in the province of Alberta and I look at what we produce and if we’re honest with ourselves, why do I produce so much shit? … Why aren’t broadcasters picking up more Canadian content? It’s because Canadian content isn’t what it should be.”