Tag: 09.09.16

Are West End Productions Choosing Smaller Theatres To Raise Ticket Prices?

Andrew Lloyd Webber: “It’s really important that theatre is accessible and that is one of the reasons we went into a rather bigger theatre on Broadway than perhaps some people would have suggested. There is a school of thought that what you do is keep the show really, really tight and then force ticket prices up,” he said. He added: “Several producers have been doing that but I am not one of them.”

Turkish Court Acquits Pianist Fasil Say On Blasphemy Charges

The Istanbul court ruling ends the long-running legal saga which began in October 2012 when Say went on trial on charges “insulting religious beliefs” in a series of Twitter posts. In a hugely convoluted process, the Turkish classical star was initially handed a 10-month jail sentence in 2013 before a retrial was ordered the same year in which he received an identical sentence.

She Was So Much More Than The Topless Cellist: Getting Reacquainted With Charlotte Moorman

For all her work with the likes of John Cage, Yoko Ono, and Nam June Paik, it was as booker, presenter and grand impresaria that she made her considerable mark on 20th-century art – especially with New York’s Avant Garde Festival (1963-80). “[She] invented the festival, produced it and coaxed city officials who didn’t know performance art from police procedurals into endorsing it.”