“I’m very conscious that our European peers, with significant government funding, have been starting various initiatives around the world. I’m also very conscious that we’re all increasingly thinking globally because of digitisation, cheaper travel and the greater mobility of our audiences.”
Tag: 07.26.13
Bernadette Lafont, 74, Actress Who Helped Launch French New Wave
She starred in Truffaut’s first professional film (the short The Mischief-Makers) and arguably the first Nouvelle Vague feature, Chabrol’s Le Beau Serge, and she went on to perform in numerous films by those directors and others. “[Her] fresh look and performance style crystallised the movement’s ideological and cinematic ambitions.”
“Home Theatre” Gets A New Meaning With S Festival Of Plays In Private Houses
“Theatre Royal Stratford East is to produce a festival of 30 performances that will take place at the homes of London residents this autumn. … All shows will be staged simultaneously on October 26 and will be filmed and then broadcast at Theatre Royal Stratford East on November 9, as well as online.”
In London’s Manicured Olympic Park, Wilderness Is Taking Over
But that was the architects’ plan from the beginning: “‘Playgrounds should be for proper risk-taking,’ says co-designer Jeanette Emery-Wallis of Land Use Consultants, ‘and getting dirt under your fingernails.'”
A Nerd’s-Eye View Of The Arts
A scientist steps into the arts and finds that everything, including money (subtract a couple of zeroes for arts grants), is different – but that science and the arts are “just different ways of engaging with questions that matter to us.”
Theatre Critics, Why Are You Afraid Of Off-Broadway?
When the Tony Awards opened its Regional Theatre award to non-Broadway companies within the boroughs, non-NY critics freaked the hell out. Why?
Scotland, Why Don’t You Care About Your Modernist Architecture?
“While professionals in architecture and urban conservation often show considerable enthusiasm for these buildings, a groundswell of popular affection is as yet a distant prospect. And in the meantime, there is less and less left to love.”
Another Pussy Riot Member Denied Parole
“A court in Saransk ruled that Nadezhda Tolokonnikova had not repented for her crime of hooliganism after singing a protest song against President Vladimir Putin in Moscow’s main cathedral.”
We’re All Publishers Now (Seriously – Check Out Gawker’s New System)
“The blog posts and re-blogged posts produced by readers are competing with the output of his own writers and editors for attention — and the result is something approaching a meritocracy of sorts, where the best content (theoretically) rises to the top.”
If You’re A ‘Genre’ Show, Good Luck Getting Those Emmy Nods
Hint to actors and writers: You’ll *never* be recognized for science fiction.