“Contemporary tinkering with a classic drama or musical — of the sort that Kahn’s company and others in Washington and elsewhere frequently undertake — has become so common that it took the theater world by surprise last month when the practice came under what amounted to an atomic attack.”
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“Print” Your Own Food
“They’ve created a 3-D printer that not only prints food, but it let’s creative chefs whip up nearly any imaginable design with the most choice of ingredients.”
Former Theatre Titan Drabinsky Could Lose Canadian Honors
Former media baron Conrad Black and theatre mogul Garth Drabinsky could both be stripped of their Order of Canada awards.
What’s Wrong With The 9/11 Memorial
You can commemorate 9/11. You’ll never compete with it.
NEA Chief Launches Partnership To Use Arts As Economic Engine
Rocco Landesman “has helped to enlist an unusual consortium of foundations, corporations and federal agencies that will use cultural enterprises to anchor and enliven 34 projects around the country, from a struggling city block in Detroit to a vacant school in East Harlem.”
Utah Playwrights Group Opposes New Performing Arts Center
“The recently formed Utah chapter of the Dramatists Guild of America calls the prospective [2,500-seat] theater ‘an echoing and unrealistic, airplane-terminal of a building.’ The group … contend[s] the project will be dependent on a small number of touring Broadway shows, even as it ignores the needs of smaller theater companies.”