The Bucks County Playhouse in New Hope, PA is producing the show in cooperation with two corporate powerhouses, Warner Bros. and Castle Rock Entertainment, and a Broadway-based creative team. (Now if only they can convince Kathy Bates to play Annie Wilkes again.)
Tag: 09.22.12
Making Hard Decisions In A City Flush With Arts Cash
“It’s not every day that a city finds itself with $57 million to spend on culture and no real plan for how to spend it. But that’s the case with Denver.”
The Music Of The (Late Summer, Early Fall) Night
“The males do all the serenading, lustful for females, each of whom waits in the dark loins of the night, listening with ears in rather odd places — on the abdomen or the front legs. A female homes in on a winged dude, lured by his siren song.”
When Your Printer Shoots Laser Beams, Don’t Panic
With this printer, that’s just what you want.
The Search For A Lost Leonardo Called Off
In Italy, politics trump curiosity, and the highly publicized search for Leonardo da Vinci’s The Battle of Anghiari ends – until, or rather unless, the government changes.
Warning: New UK Rules May Mean Curtains For Children And Instruments
Critics say that new “core” education standards in the UK are a “short-sighted, wholesale attack on secondary music education” that “will emasculate not only our world class music education system but also our entire creative economy.”
Why Does Silicon Valley Work?
Because it’s stupid.
In Myanmar, Censors Close Up Shop And Go Home
“For nearly five decades, military governments here examined every book, every article, each illustration, photo or poem before printing. It was a crucial exercise for the military, which sought control over nearly every facet of citizens’ lives.” Now, that’s coming to an end.
What The Hell Is California Artist Ed Ruscha Doing In Vienna?
“The marriage between institution and artist is unlikely. Ruscha is famed for his scrupulously laconic hymns to US culture at its most downbeat and vernacular. … The Kunsthistorisches, on the other hand, is a high monument to Old World culture, a cupola-crowned palace built in 1891.”
Wrestling Content, And Meaning, For China And The U.S.
“American movie heroes typically choose greatness, but their path to glory is often sidetracked by failings or doubts as the idol struggles with physical and emotional setbacks. Chinese movie paragons, on the other hand, normally have greatness thrust upon them, are physically and emotionally stable and rarely change over the course of a tale.”