“Theater is just one kind of storytelling technology, and it’s been losing market share steadily for a century. We artists have all sorts of digital tools we can play with now. And if we want to be prosperous, like Erol, we really ought to play with them more.”
Tag: 08.18.13
A Little Restoration Project Turns Into Discovery Of Big Pre-Raphaelite Mural
“The near-lifesize figures on the wall at the Red House, now buried in south-east London suburbia at Bexleyheath, are now believed to represent the joint work of Edward Burne-Jones, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, his wife Elizabeth Siddal, Ford Madox Brown and Morris.”
An Author’s Deeply Personal Touch, And Her 170 Million Books In Print
The fans “refer to Macomber by her first name. They know her husband Wayne and her underwear-stealing dog Bogie, and her children and grandchildren. Macomber loves them right back.”
What’s *Really* Going To Happen With Books & Bookstores?
Former booksellers, current readers, fans of Amazon, fans of Apple, fans of “creative destruction” – they all weigh in (and you can too).
British Author On A Ramble With His Son Gets Questioned For Kidnapping
Will Self and his 11-year-old son were following a British tradition of long, rambling walks when police got called in to protect the boy. The author is … er … not best pleased.
At The Bolshoi, Even The Claques Are Choreographed
“Mr. Abramov’s people are ordinary-looking middle-aged Russian women in cloth coats, and their expressions are all business. They assemble on the stairs, and as the first curtain approaches, they break up into formations, like synchronized swimmers, and vanish into the stream of people heading to their seats. … [Abramov’s] job is to engineer applause and ovations, on the basis of secret agreements with dancers, using associates planted in the audience.”