“Theatre has taken a long time to come to terms with the idea that TV and film have done better what 19th-century theatre did. A lot of the interest in ‘intimate’ theatre is about discovering what a live performance can do that nothing else can.”
Tag: 08.09.10
Inside Washington National Opera’s Money Woes
“The company now known as the Washington National Opera has always had trouble keeping its finances in order. As a result, it has come to rely on a small group of donors who, time and again, have bailed the season out. These two traits are now clashing head-on.”
In Australia, Art Blockbusters Lose Money
“At the NGV, blockbusters cost between $3.5 million and $4.5m each. But unlike a Hollywood blockbuster which can underpin studio operations for a year, figures obtained by The Australian reveal the galleries generate mixed returns from their blockbuster exhibitions.”
In Search of the Real Charlie Chan (Yes, There Was One)
Crime novelist Earl Derr Biggers’s “honorable Chinese detective from Honolulu” – for decades a popular (and very clever) character before being dismissed as a demeaning stereotype – was modeled on an actual immigrant from China who became one of Honolulu’s most formidable police officers.