Star Nikolai Tsiskaridze “irks the Bolshoi’s administration with his public criticism, complaining about the poor state of dancers’ changing rooms, the uncomfortable dance floor and equipment that needs replacing. … ‘Maybe I irritate [them]; I don’t care. The theater’s managers come and go, and I will stay.”
Tag: 06.24.11
Rating Heavy Metal Bands On An ‘Axis Of Evil’
“You have to love any graph that has ‘in percent of evil’ as an axis – part of an amusing dashboard analyzing how ‘evil’ Slayer albums and songs are, based on how often the lyrics reference blood, death, evil, heil, kill, Satan, and war.”
First New Classical Theatre In NYC In 50 Years Begins Construction
“Theatre for a New Audience has broken ground on its first permanent home, the first new classical theater performance space to be built in New York City in almost 50 years. It will be the only theater built exclusively for Shakespeare and other classical drama since the Vivian Beaumont Theater was created at Lincoln Center in 1965.”
Let’s Sue That Damned Book
“Before this year, there had been only two significant class action suits against major publishers, both of which were settled. Since January, however, both Simon & Schuster and Penguin Group have found themselves staring down the barrels of class action litigation.”
We’re Watching The Death Of The Paper Book
“The book – the physical paper book – is being circled by a shoal of sharks, with sales down 9 per cent this year alone. It’s being chewed by the e-book. It’s being gored by the death of the bookshop and the library. And most importantly, the mental space it occupied is being eroded by the thousand Weapons of Mass Distraction that surround us all.”
Morgan Library Creates Drawing Institute
The Drawing Institute at the Morgan Library & Museum “will present exhibitions, sponsor annual fellowships, host seminars and organize a full schedule of public and academic programs.” A Morgan trustee “has given the institution $5 million to start it.”
Detroit Symphony Is Bouncing Back From Strike
“The Detroit Symphony Orchestra raised more than $3 million during a strike-shortened season in April and May while its overall number of donors increased to 4,800, a 27% jump over last year. The DSO also drew about 450 more patrons per concert compared to a typical night before the strike.”
What Do Young Gay Men Make Of A History Play Like The Normal Heart?
A generation that has no memory of the time before anti-retroviral drugs gets a glimpse the real fear, panic and determination with which their predecessors faced down the plague in the mid-1980s. (Most of them had no idea …)
How Peter Falk’s Lt. Columbo Changed TV Cops
For television’s first couple of generations, detectives tended to be “a smug and self-assured bunch, comfortable in their mental, moral, and physical attributes and their obvious superiority over not only the bad guys, but everybody else, too. … Columbo was immediately relatable to us, to people the world over, in a way that no TV cop had ever been before … We’d all met guys like him. Many of us were guys like him.”
What’s It Like To Dance For 12,000 People? Tamara Rojo On Romeo & Juliet At The O2
“[We] realised that with the cameras there was no need to turn up the volume in any way, because through the screens the public was very close to every detail, and would feel in some ways even closer than at the Opera House. So I think we just went into our own show. The experience felt really intimate, actually.”