The Playhouse is celebrating its centennial but canceled two large-cast productions last year for plays with far, far fewer people, and had to get board loans for this year after the state of California cut $1 million from its budget (the cuts were restored). Still, new producing artistic director Danny Feldman “isn’t daunted by the challenges, referring to himself as ‘bizarre’ in that he loves fundraising.” Can he succeed?
Tag: 07.09.17
The Bolshoi Has ‘Indefinitely Postponed’ A High-Profile Ballet About Nuryev, Perhaps Because Of The Director’s Outspoken Politics
Just days before the ballet was set to premiere, the Bolshoi shocked the dance world with this move. Its director, Kirill Serebrennikov, “has fallen out of favour with Russia’s cultural authorities in recent years and has denounced increasing censorship of the arts.”