“We expect the performance to be quite compelling once the dancers become accustomed to working with the snake. That may take a little coaching.”
Tag: 10.08.13
We Are Failing To Nurture Music For The Future
“There is no danger that it will die out, but we are failing to nurture it in important ways. In particular, we are turning into people who listen but do not play a note.”
Is Theatre Criticism Really In Crisis? Not Necessarily
Despite the shrinking word counts and business-model problems, writes Lyn Gardner, “the pendulum may yet swing the other way. There was a time back in the early 1990s when newspapers barely went near regional theatres; now they wouldn’t dream of not reviewing the latest show at West Yorkshire Playhouse.”
The Problem With Malcolm Gladwell
“I had thought Gladwell was inadvertently misunderstanding the science he was writing about and making sincere mistakes in the service of coming up with ever more ‘Gladwellian’ insights to serve his audience. But according to his own account, he knows exactly what he is doing, and not only that, he thinks it is the right thing to do”
BBC To Overhaul iPlayer
Director General Tony Hall “announced a new version of the iPlayer, which will allow users to access programmes for up to 30 days after their initial broadcasts and even watch shows before they have been transmitted on TV.”
Met Museum Says Its Tourists Brought $401 Million To NY This Spring And Summer
“The Met’s economic impact in 2013 marked a slight increase from the $398 million seen in the previous season but was lower than the $472 million generated in 2011, when a blockbuster show devoted to the late British designer Alexander McQueen prompted a surge in visitors.”
Detroit Symphony Rebounds With Record Fundraising
“The DSO will announce key fund-raising and ticket-sale metrics on Tuesday for the fiscal year ending Aug. 31. The results include $6.3 million in ticket sales — nearly $1 million more than in 2012. In addition, individual donors in 2013 topped 10,000 for the first time in a decade.”
Metropolitan Museum Faces Lawsuits Over Its “Suggested” Admission Price
“You don’t have to be from Stuttgart to feel befuddled by the Met’s entrance policy, with its signs telling you what to spend and then suggesting that you do not have to spend it. Two lawsuits wending their way through State Supreme Court are seeking to address that confusion, accusing the museum of misleading the public not only about how much to pay – but also, more important, about whether it is necessary to pay at all.”
“Carlos Danger” Gets His Own Stage Tragedy (Complete With Bad-Pun Title)
“The strange summer of Anthony D. Weiner is about to have its curtain call: The Weiner Monologues, a play that imagines the erstwhile congressman and mayoral candidate as a tragic hero of the stage, will make its Off Off Broadway debut next month.”