Bill Rauch: “We hope that people will find plays that both reaffirm values they already hold and provoke new ways of looking at the world in each portion of the season. So when choosing which eleven plays to produce in a season, we must not only look at the merits of the individual plays themselves, but how they resonate with others that will be playing right next door or even in the same space later that same day.”
Tag: 09.14.15
Good Writing? The Key Is What You Leave Out
John McPhee: Words are too easy to play on. When I joined The New Yorker, in 1965, I left puns behind. Not that I have never suffered a relapse. In the nineteen-seventies, I turned in a manuscript containing a pun so fetid I can’t remember it. My editor then was Robert Bingham, who said, “We should take that out.”
Chicago Symphony Musicians Contract Expires
“Orchestra members were left in limbo, without a contract, less than 48 hours before they are scheduled to begin rehearsals for the opening concerts of the CSO’s 125th anniversary season. Those concerts mark the start of Riccardo Muti’s sixth season as music director.”