“Dame Janet Suzman, who has played an extensive range of leading parts in Shakespeare’s dramas, has launched an outspoken attack on her fellow Shakespearean actors Sir Derek Jacobi and Mark Rylance for giving succour to ‘conspiracy theories’ that the world’s most famous playwright was not the sole author of his works.”
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Meet YouTube’s Favorite Classical Pianist
Valentina Lisitsa “was born in Kiev and started playing piano at the age of three. In the space of five years she has gone from almost quitting the business to being one of the internet’s most watched classical musicians, dubbed ‘the Justin Bieber of the classical world’ for the reported 43 million visitors to her YouTube channel.”
Women Choreographers Are Finally Reaching The Top Rungs Of UK Dance’s Ladder
Just three years ago, the British dance world was arguing over “why an art form that used to boast a profusion of female talent had ended up with most of its high-profile choreographers being male … Things have begun to change. Partly, a crop of new work has appeared with xx chromosomes firmly embedded in it; partly, programmers have sharpened their focus.”
No One Wants Charles Saatchi’s Art Collection
“It is considered one of the most important contemporary art collections in the world, featuring Tracey Emin’s bed and Grayson Perry’s pots” – and worth £30 million or more. “But two years since announcing his generous gift [to the British nation], the collection has yet to find a home.”
Author Of Trainspotting Says The Booker Prize Is Elitist Bunk
“The award, [Irvine Welsh] said, was ‘based on the conceit that upper-class Englishness is the cultural yardstick against which all literature must be measured.'”
Ghosts In The Museum? No, Those Are Just The Tenants
“A couple of tourists wander through a quiet woodcarving exhibit. They stare intently at a carved eagle and various tools kept behind glass. What they don’t know — until he tromps downstairs — is that 60-year-old Tom Richter lives upstairs. With his easy grin, bare feet, cut-off khakis and baggy T-shirt, he looks kind of like he walked out of a Jimmy Buffet song.”
In The Game Of Symphony, Your Music Makes The Enemies (And A Lot More)
“Everything is presented in bright, flashy neon lights to complement your selection of music. Enemies explode into tiny glittering music notes when they die. You can shoot music notes.”
Art Competition In New York Ends Up All Wet
At Rockaway Beach in Queens, artists picked by a public arts group build sand-castle art – “to be stomped or filled in by nightfall.”
Brent Grulke, 51, Creative Director of South by Southwest
Playing at SXSW can change a band’s career, and Brent Grulke was in charge of the bookings. “Not recommended for making an impression — though each had been tried at least once — was bombarding Mr. Grulke’s office with kegs of beer, smoked salmon, assorted strippers and a toilet bowl filled with Tootsie Rolls.”
Some Drive-In Movie Theatres Are Like Energizer Bunnies
They just keep going even when an array of cultural forces line up against them. Why is this 1950s-era experience still around?