“Two months after Elie Wiesel used legal threats to shut down a play that imagined his relationship with his former money manager, Bernard L. Madoff, that work – revised, with a new character replacing Mr. Wiesel – will have its first performances this week.”
Tag: 07.20.10
At Amazon, E-Books Outsell Dead-Tree Books For First Time
“Monday was a day for the history books – if those will even exist in the future. Amazon.com, one of the nation’s largest booksellers, announced Monday that for the last three months, sales of books for its e-reader, the Kindle, outnumbered sales of hardcover books.”
The Overlooked (and Overheard) Gems Of Incidental Music
“Few terms in the realms of musical composition and theater are as imprecise, let alone patronizing, as incidental music. … Yet since the 17th century when Purcell wrote ingenious music for English plays, notable composers have written music for the theater that was hardly incidental.” (Grieg’s Peer Gynt and Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream are but two famous examples.) Anthony Tommasini looks at the new scores accompanying this year’s two Shakespeare in the Park (that’s Central Park) productions.