“The Playwrights Unit offers Chicago playwrights a year-long residency to foster new work with the Goodman’s artistic team. The group will meet twice a month and their work will culminate in public staged readings held in summer 2016.”
Tag: 09.28.15
When Experimental Theatre Companies Take On Shakespeare
Complicité’s Simon McBurney, Improbable’s Phelim McDermott, Kneehigh’s Emma Rice (who takes over Shakespeare’s Globe next April), and Told by an Idiot’s Paul Hunter talk about the unusual approaches they use – and which Shakespeare plays they do and don’t get encouraged to stage.
Sale Of Harmonia Mundi Record Label Finalized
The acquisition by the Brussels-based indie rock label group PIAS, effective Oct. 1, includes all of Harmonia Mundi’s subsidiary labels, catalogues, inventory and other assets in classical, jazz, and world music, but not HM’s book publishing business or retail outlets.
Cincinnati Symphony Takes On A Three-Year Experiment
The orchestra is presenting a multimedia, three-year “Pelleas and Melisande” project that will combine live music, a site-specific installation and – in the third year – the performance of a full opera.
Gustavo Dudamel: Why I Won’t Take Sides In Venezuelan Politics
Dudamel’s editorial, headlined “Why I Don’t Talk Venezuelan Politics,” is a 650-word essay in which he describes himself as “neither a politician nor an activist.” He says, “I will not publicly take a political position or align myself with one point of view or one party in Venezuela or in the United States.”
What We Can Learn From The Art In Eli Broad’s Vault
“Listen to Eli Broad, and it’s a great sin for museums to have art in storage. That’s why he built his own museum (with 1700+ works in storage). Storage is a fact of life with a contemporary collection, where tastes change quickly. Nobody buys 11 Taaffes thinking they’re all going to be on permanent display or constantly on loan. And nobody knows what art-of-our-time will resonate 50 or 100 years hence. A few of today’s artists and works will survive the winnowing of history. Everything else will be in storage.”
Juilliard To Open New School In China
The Tianjin Juilliard School is expected to open in 2018 and will offer U.S.-accredited master of music degrees in orchestral studies, chamber music and collaborative piano. The school will have its own permanent faculty; guest artists from the New York campus will also teach there.
Fall For Dance Is A Hit In New York. So Now It’s Moving North
In Ilter Ibrahimof’s mind, this year’s Fall for Dance North is only the beginning of what he thinks the festival can do. In future years, he’s hoping to commission longer pieces and to add a second stage, allowing for more intimate performances. “Toronto is a great place for Fall for Dance because of its extreme diversity, its openness. In a way, it’s almost better-suited to this festival than New York.”
Dallas Museum Of Art Director Resigns For New Job In New York
“Maxwell Anderson, director of the Dallas Museum of Art since 2012, made public Monday what he told the board of directors last week: He is resigning, effective immediately, to take an executive position with the New Cities Foundation in New York City.”
What American TV Tells Us About Our Jobs
“One might expect TV to say about work what The Office says: that what you are obliged to do all day is pointless. … Although associated with the freedom to mute, surf, and binge-watch, TV pays attention not only to what we do when we’re on the clock, it also asks philosophical questions about work and the meaning of life, urging us to demand more meaning (whatever that might be) from what we do for a living.”