“Experimental theatre company Shunt are to create a version of the ancient Greek labyrinth in a London warehouse as part of their first new show in three years. The Architects, a contemporary retelling of the Minotaur myth, will play in a former biscuit factory in Bermondsey from 27 November.”
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Regietheater Meets My Fair Lady
In director Christoph Marthaler’s Meine Faire Dame: Ein Sprachlabor, “the setting is a language lab; Professor Higgins has become Professor Karpathy, not an English phoneticist but a Hungarian one; and there are three Eliza Doolittles, each played by different actors.”
Attendance Triples At Detroit Institute Of Arts Since Museum Levy Passed
“Nearly 8,000 visitors poured into the museum through Sunday, about 5,000 of whom were admitted free as residents of the tri-county area. About 2,000 people paid general admission fees, and 900 others were admitted free as members.”
Just What Was “Progressive” Rock?
Defining or categorizing this music is basically impossible. Progression magazine, a glossy quarterly journal that’s been around for 20 years, has identified at least 19 sub-genres, including “neo-progressive,” “neo-classical progressive,” and “rock in opposition”– that one coined by Chris Culter, a drummer for Henry Cow, to describe music you can’t describe.
The Seattle Symphony Reinvents Itself
“According to [executive director] Simon Woods, this year will be “at or a hair’s breadth away from breaking even,” the first time in years. Donations toward the $24 million annual budget will hit a new high of $9.5 million. Ticket sales, already a remarkably high percentage of income (45 percent), are up 2 percent.”
LA’s Margo Leavin Gallery To Close After 42 Years
“The gallery’s reputation for championing serious artists with integrity made it a respected player in the years that Los Angeles art was gaining international prominence. Among the artists the gallery has shown are John Baldessari, Alexis Smith, William Leavitt, Claes Oldenburg, Roy Dowell and Lynda Benglis.”
Carol Ann Duffy Writing Revisionist Rapunzel Ballet
“The poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, is writing her first ballet, based on the classic fairytale of Rapunzel – and has promised to put back the darkness and terror left out of recent sugary visions of pink princesses with long golden hair.”
Challenge To CBC’s Online Music Portal Tossed Out
“The federal broadcast regulator has ruled in favour of the CBC in a challenge by a private broadcaster against the launch of internet portal CBC Music. The Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission ruled that the CBC does not have an undue preference and does not disadvantage other new media players in launching the free internet service.”
Despite Mixed Reviews, Public Theater Considers Taking Into The Woods To Broadway
“Theater producers are pursuing a possible Broadway transfer of the Central Park staging of [Sondheim’s] Into The Woods in spite of several negative reviews last week that would usually put a damper on such plans.”
Struggle Over Early Richard Serra Work In Ontario
The then-little-known sculptor completed the concrete-and-earthwork installation Shift in 1972 on what was, at the time, farmland 50 km north of Toronto. A developer now owns that land and would like to turn it into and exurb; though he insists he won’t harm the piece, he is appealing the protected heritage status conferred on Shift in 2009.