“Lebanese artist Rabih Mroué will stage his new performance piece in Paris, Rome and the capitals of Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt. But he will not present it in Lebanon, for the audience with whom it might resonate most.” The country’s Interior Ministry has banned the piece.
Tag: 08.18.07
Choreogapher Tanja Liedke, 29
Liedtke, a young choreographer and artistic director-designate of the Sydney Dance Company was struck by a garbage truck at Crows Nest Friday night…
Stratford Festival Hires The Fantastic Four
“The increasing feeling among everyone concerned with the festival was that it had grown too big for just one individual or artistic vision. So the board came up with the idea of a general director who would take charge of the whole organization and have three artistic directors underneath him – none of them with specific responsibilities for a certain theatre, etc., but all of them expected to contribute to a new and exciting entity.”
Analysis: What Makes A Successful Movie
“A psychology professor at the University of California, Davis, has done a statistical study of thousands of movies to determine what makes them critical darlings or box-office hits.”
“High School Musical 2” Breaks Cable TV Records
The premiere showing of “High School Musical 2” on the Disney Channel scored 17 million viewers. “If these estimates hold up, it would make ‘High School Musical 2’ the most watched event ever broadcast on basic cable, surpassing the debut of ‘Monday Night Football’ on ESPN, which attracted 16 million viewers on Sept. 23, 2006.”
Timidity Stalling A Movie Revolution
The infrastructure’s now in place so that consumers can get movies whenever they want wherever they want them. But the movie studios haven’t supplied the actuall movies to make this happen. “The movie studios are preternaturally suspicious of the new and unfamiliar. Their fear has nothing to do with crunching the numbers, but rather with large organizations’ tendency to lose sight of their interests — not to mention their customers’.”
Major Squeeze
More than 1,000 accordionists have landed in Washington DC for the “world cup” of accordian playing…
Misery Lives
At this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, a kind of theatrical equivalent of ‘misery lit’ is packing in the crowds. “This breed of biography-based plays has very little to do with art (they have only the merest veneer of it) and everything to do with flogging a lump in the throat and a neatly packaged, easy-to-take-home uplift.”
Ex-Louisiana Film Commissioner Charged
“Louisiana’s former film commissioner has been charged with taking $65,000 in bribes by abusing a system of tax credits meant to lure film production to the state>