“Scotland’s oldest working theatre, the Theatre Royal in Dumfries built in 1792, has been saved from closure with support from the local charitable Holywood Trust.”
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Hulu Was Supposed To Be The Future Of TV, But…
For all the innovation that Hulu represents, the site also lays bare the gulf between what online viewers want and what TV companies are willing to give them.
How Netflix Is Changing The TV and Movie Businesses
“Already Netflix has as many subscribers as the country’s largest cable company, and consumers and the business world alike have watched as it thrived while putting video-store chains out of business. Along the way, its influence has grown: Television programmers are now making decisions based on potential Netflix popularity.”
Robert Spano Calms The Aspen Music Festival
“How Spano ultimately is judged will derive from his overall guidance of the fest’s many components, from its conducting academy to its chamber-music offerings to its opera program.”
Why American Cable Networks Are Investing In Drama
“In the early days of cable, basic channels wouldn’t dream of producing original scripted fare, now they’re chockablock with them. How can they afford them? The better question may be, how can they afford not to make scripted shows.”
Chance-Taking Movie Producer Or Luxury-Loving Con?
“The saga of Bret Saxon and the question of whether he is simply an unlucky producer or, as alleged in the lawsuits, a fraud provides a window into film financing in modern Hollywood and the risks of such investments.”
Where Julie Taymor Went Wrong With Spider-Man
Theater is a fragile medium. What doesn’t first work can if the spark is there and if attitudes can be changed. Julie Taymor may have pulled it off adapting “The Lion King” to the Broadway stage, but “Spider-Man” disastrously collided with Broadway’s corporate culture.
Egypt Downgrades Antiquities Ministry, Ousts Hawass
“On Thursday, the Egyptian government said it is downgrading the antiquities department from a ministry to an office reporting to the prime minister, reversing a decision by former president Hosni Mubarak in the last days of his rule to elevate its status. Mr. Hawass was pushed out, along with several other cabinet members, as part of an effort by Prime Minister Essam Sharaf to appease protesters who had returned to Tahrir Square to demand further changes in the government.”
Summer-Long Dance Audition
“Every day at a summer intensive the possibility of being invited to stay once the summer’s over looms, and the parent companies often view the classes as extended auditions for their schools and troupes.”
A Library Of Everything?
“Last year, Robert Darnton, a cultural historian and director of Harvard University’s library system, began to raise the prospect of creating a public digital library. This library would include the digitized collections of the country’s great research institutions, but it would also bring in other media – video, music, film – as well as the collection of Web pages maintained by the Internet Archive.”