Emotional Creature, to open Off-Broadway in November, will feature six young actresses “perform[ing] monologues, stories, and songs that render the pressures and rites of passages of growing up female in disparate cultures.”
Tag: 06.27.12
How Nora Ephron Became The Problem
Janet Maslin: “When Nora Ephron wrote about her early aspiration to be the only lady at the table, the sharpest wit in the room, she called this her ‘Dorothy Parker problem.’ … Dorothy Parker set an example for scathingly smart female journalists of Ms. Ephron’s generation, but Ms. Ephron’s five-decade-long career outdid that. It’s now the Nora Ephron problem instead.”
How Did Our Remote Buttons Get So Completely Out Of Control?
“Imagine if there were a separate door for each shelf of your refrigerator, and each of those doors had its own combination lock. That’s the state of the modern entertainment center, and the hand-held devices we use to manipulate it. The remote control was supposed to make life easier, but instead it’s led us into a labyrinth of bad design. How did we get here, and where are we going?” (There are, in fact, answers to those questions.)
Restored Gates Of Paradise To Go Back On View In Florence
After 12 years of planning and a further 22 years of conservation work, all ten panels from the … Florentine Renaissance masterpiece by Lorenzo Ghiberti, have been restored to their former glory … The monumental set of gilded bronze doors, constructed between 1425 and 1452, stand at just over five metres tall and contain scenes from the Old Testament.”
Orlando Ballet’s New CEO Wants To Go Places
Mark Hough “means that literally. Since he took up the post in mid-April, he has been reaching out to places like Jacksonville and Melbourne [Florida] to see if there’s interest in hosting Orlando Ballet shows there.” He means it figuratively, too, of course, and he’s a longtime friend and colleague (from their ABT days) of company artistic director Robert Hill.
Scotland Backs Off, Temporarily, Switch To Project-Based Funding
“Creative Scotland, the Scottish arts funding quango, has delayed by six months its controversial proposal to remove flexible funding from 49 cultural organisations” in favor of per-project grants made from the Lottery fund.
Boosters Try To Reboot Fundraising For New Orlando Arts Center
Construction began a year ago on the first phase of the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, which will include two halls. But backers still need $75 million for the second phase, a venue for Orlando’s orchestra and opera and ballet companies – and the effort to raise that money has stalled.
A Cultural Paralympics: Orchestra Of Disabled Musicians Formed For London Cultural Olympiad
Conductor Charles Hazlewood writes about The British Paraorchestra, the ensemble of 18 disabled musicians he founded and is set to lead in its debut.
Helping Refugees Turn Their Tales Of Flight Into Theatre
In a workshop this week near Glasgow, Dutch theatre artist Annet Henneman and a group of refugees from Africa, Sri Lanka and Kurdistan acted out a “Refugee School, in which pupils learn such skills as how to barter for a passport, how to hide money inside their own body and how to sleep upright in an enclosed space crammed with other asylum seekers. All of these, it transpires, come from real-life experiences.”
Will This Be New York’s Weirdest Building? Design Revealed For Columbia’s New Medical School
The 14-story building in Washington Heights, by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, will have an entirely transparent southern façade that will allow the public to see into some very oddly shaped open-plan floors.