That’s the goal in Chen Shi-Zheng’s adaptation of The Orphan of Zhao, anyway. “Despite the familiarity of this 13th-century play to spectators in Mr. Chen’s homeland, they might have trouble understanding all the lines. The principal actors Mr. Chen has cast for this staging in China are almost all Americans, and they will speak in English. In fact, very little about the production will signal the story’s Chinese origins.”
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Without Using ‘Uncanny Valley’ Technology, Disney Plans To Feature Carrie Fisher In The Next Star Wars Film
What? The star died in 2016, but the studio says there’s enough leftover footage from the 2015 film The Force Awakens to include General Leia Organa in the next episode. “We were never going to recast, or use a CG character,” director J.J. Abrams said.
How To Make A Chamber Music Group Hip And Fun
In Cincinnati, the Chamber Orchestra director says, “Since we don’t have to sell 3,000 tickets, we can be more inventive, we can forge ahead, we can go to bars and do little shows there. … We can look to the next way of what to do with this medium, classical music. How do we stay relevant?”
A Box Office Worker Becomes A Last-Minute West End Star
Jennifer Caldwell, who was working in the box office in London’s Arts Theatre, got the call to fill in when the understudy was already filling in someone else’s role: “One of the producers saw me on the box office and said ‘I’ve had an idea’ about getting me to fill in. I said maybe, so he said ‘what if we cut parts of the show – can you do a reduced version of the track?’ and I said why not! We rehearsed from 3.30pm until 5pm and were on stage at 7pm.”
What A Beast
The Captain is the best movie in years. Fight me.
The Head Of The Royal Academy Will Step Down After Eleven Blockbuster Years
Sir Charles Saumarez Smith “will leave at the end of the year and said he was departing at a time of ‘obvious strength and success.’ Just over a million people visited the gallery in 2017, and a £56m redevelopment of the site was unveiled earlier this year.” And then there are the blockbuster David Hockney and Anish Kapoor shows – triumphs for the RA.
Artists Deal With The Tide Of Gentrification In Los Angeles’ Little Tokyo
The area is changing rapidly: “The promise of more light rail and Little Tokyo’s proximity to popular destinations like the Arts District are also increasing construction of market-rate housing that has led to the evictions of long-time residents, including Japanese American artists with ties to the Little Tokyo community.”
Why Do Adults Reread Our Childhood Classics – And What Do We Learn About Ourselves When We Do?
It’s familiarity, true: “There is an allure to the repetition of rereading, submitting to the rhythms of a narrative, place, and characters you know well, and the familiar emotions they evoke. Rereading also has a different pace. I tear through a book on the first read, to find out what happens next, but rereading feels mellower and more leisurely, even while relearning the parts I’ve forgotten.” But then, there’s the discovery of racism, sexism, classism, homophobia – basically, there’s the risk of understanding the suck fairy.
Months After ABC Refused To Air An Episode Of The Show ‘black-ish,’ The Show’s Creator Leaves Three Years Early
Speculation says that showrunner Kenya Barris has jumped ship for warmer waters at Netflix, but that’s unconfirmed. And “Barris will remain an executive producer on all of his ABC Studios shows,” including black-ish spinoff grown-ish.
Cleveland Orchestra Suspends Concertmaster William Preucil Over Sexual Harassment Charges
“The Cleveland Orchestra was not aware of the of the allegations reported by The Washington Post about William Preucil in their July 26, 2018 article,” said executive director Andre Gremillet, in a written statement. “We take this matter very seriously and will promptly conduct an independent investigation.”