“Broadway has become a very expensive game, with producers taking our money in exchange for profits and all our names being billed above the title. … It’s getting out of control. But Broadway nowadays can’t survive without us.”
Tag: 08.15.14
If Mainstream TV And Movies Won’t Show Latinas And Latinos, So What? There’s YouTube
“The network, which distributes lifestyle videos in both Spanish and English, surpassed 6 billion views. In June, the company announced that its Series B funding round had netted $10 million.”
Most Critics Have Deserted The Edinburgh Fringe Fest, And That’s Not A Good Thing
“Very few first-string critics now make an appearance at the fringe, and those that do often find the filling in of forms in triplicate that is necessary to secure a ticket off-putting.”
London’s National Gallery (FINALLY) Allows Photography – Yes, Including Selfies With Self-Portraits
“What’s this going to do to art? What’s it going to do to a generation? … Once you stick your big face in the foreground, the experience is different again, less like art and more like going to the seaside and putting your head above the body of a wrestler in a swimming costume.”
In ‘La Trashiata,’ A Fake Celebrity Real Opera [VIDEO]
“The photographer has now turned her hand to Opera, creating La Trashiata, which features dopplegangers of Charles Saatchi and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, among others.”
George Orwell’s Estate Is Not Happy With Amazon. Not Happy At All.
“I’m both appalled and wryly amused that Amazon’s tactics should come straight out of Orwell’s own nightmare dystopia, 1984.”
What’s ‘American’ About Ballet?
“The story of a frontier outlaw and his string of murders was far removed from the lofty and exotic subjects of European ballet.”
Paris’s Musée Picasso Finally Has A Reopening Date
“After five years of delays and difficulties, culminating in a public quarrel and the firing of its president in May, the museum’s reopening is finally set for the artist’s birthday, Oct. 25. … The renovation has doubled the public space, modernized outdated facilities and added a new entrance, a multimedia auditorium and a Cubist garden with geometric topiary trees.”
Uncle Jack Charles – Stolen Child, Ex-Con Heroin Addict, Movie Actor, Grandfather Of Australian Indigenous Theatre
He was raised by a white foster mother and stumbled across his blood family by chance at age 17. Began learning acting at 19. Was rejected for a starring Aboriginal role in favor of a South Asian actor. Co-founded Australia’s first aboriginal theatre company. And that was just his life before 1980.
California Orchestra’s Board Ousts Maestro By Unanimous Vote
“David Ramadoff’s 33rd season holding the baton for the Vallejo Symphony Orchestra will be his last. Suzie Peterson, third-year VSO board president, said the organization seeks ‘a different direction’ after a 10-0 vote to replace the maestro following the third and final 2014-2015 concert on April 12”