“The leader and public face of the 32-year-old company for eight years, [Dennis] Hanthorn was widely credited for achieving marked improvement in its artistry and helping it survive financial challenges that were in play even before the recession hit.” No announcement was made until a journalist found out about Hanthorn’s departure.
Tag: 08.09.12
Pyotr Fomenko, Revered Russian Stage Director, Dead At 80
“In 1998, he founded the Pyotr Fomenko Workshop Theater that quickly grew into one of the country’s most renowned companies known in Russia and abroad for its sophisticated interpretation of the Russian and international classics.”
Beck’s Latest Album – On Paper Only (For Now)
“In the wake of Modern Guilt and The Information, Beck’s latest album comes in an almost-forgotten form–twenty songs existing only as individual pieces of sheet music, never before released or recorded.”
Playwright Claims UK Producers Have No Respect For Writers
“I was told from the very beginning that the writer of a musical is the lowest man on the totem pole. People… were very polite in telling me to stay away. But in the US that would never happen. You would need to fire the writer first.”
Evidence Viewers Are Leaving Pay-TV (Cable, Satellite)
“A sustained decline in the number of people subscribing to pay TV has ramifications for pay-TV operators and for TV channels, most of which share in the fees paid by subscribers. Big entertainment companies generate much of their profits from subscription fees paid to TV channels.”
Publisher Withdraws The Jefferson Lies, Voted Worst History Book Ever
“Citing a loss of confidence in the book’s details, Christian publisher Thomas Nelson is ending the publication and distribution of the bestseller, The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You’ve Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson.” Many historians had excoriated the author’s research, and viewers of The History Network recently voted it The Worst History Book in Print.
Utica (NY) Symphony May Reassemble For Concert This Fall
“The Utica Symphony Orchestra could be back in the swing by the end of the year – at least for one concert. The financially strapped orchestra is staggering back on its feet after paying approximately $60,000 worth of debt … The symphony was forced to end its 2011 fall season early because of debts totaling near $100,000.”
Eli Broad Holds Back Some Pledges To LA MoCA
“Billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad hasn’t made scheduled payments to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles because the institution has $2.1 million in grants it hasn’t put toward exhibitions. … The missed payments come at a time when concerns over finances at the museum have resurfaced after four prominent artists quit MoCA’s board last month.”
Sarah Polley On The Nature Of Love
Says the writer/director of Away from Her and Take This Waltz, “We’re all kind of ugly in our relationships. I have a friend who thinks that you find someone who will take you and then you reveal yourself. … What’s sexy at the start of a relationship is how that person offers you the possibility of reinventing yourself. And then at some point you realise they probably won’t.”
A Brief History Of Synchronized Swimming, Starting With Benjamin Franklin
Yes, dear old Ben was evidently “America’s first stunt swimmer,” judging from a letter in which he describes performing feats for onlookers while swimming in the Thames. But the story really begins circa 1900 with a vaudevillian named Annette Kellerman. And then there was the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair.