“Punctuating a week of high drama on the city’s performing-arts scene, Boston Lyric Opera has decided that it will not renew its lease at the Citi Shubert Theatre, its home for nearly two decades. Next fall it will move its productions to a temporary venue, one yet to be announced. This is a seismic development for New England’s largest opera company.”
Tag: 10.09.15
Who Has The Rights To This Picasso – The Actual Private Owner, Or Spain?
“At the heart of the matter are questions that many countries are now grappling with: What constitutes a national treasure? And what are the limits of private property rights when it comes to precious art?”
The Grim Toll Of Workplace Injuries On A Principal Dancer
“Dancing wasn’t the primary problem; Ms. Somogyi, 38, wasn’t sure if she would be able to walk normally again.”
Making ‘Diversity’ The Norm Instead Of The Niche In Theatre
“A single play may tick the diversity box, but it’s definitely not inclusion – that only comes when theatres commit to the development and support of playwrights over a much longer period, and consistently programme a range of plays that give the space for a critical mass of writers to emerge and dig in for the long term.”
The Newest Trash Dump: Turkey’s 2,400-Year-Old Tombs
“Today the tombs are Fethiye’s main tourist attraction. Which begs the question: how did they get to be filled with so much trash before authorities ever even noticed or took action?”
In Weird Music News, A Former Kmart Employee Has Digitized His Collection Of Kmart Corporate Tapes Of The Early 1990s
“Every month, corporate office issued a cassette to be played over the store speaker system — canned elevator-type music with advertisements seeded every few tracks. Around 1991, the muzak was replaced with mainstream hits, and the following year, new tapes began arriving weekly.”
How LitCrawls Have Made Readings Much – MUCH – Less Boring
“We asked the staff to turn down the music, and they just stared at us and said we needed to talk to the manager, who was not there. There were about five readers, and a cluster of people who wanted to hear them. TV screens were locked on some kind of game, the music was blasting. We were trapped. And then, hats off to the late David Poindexter, publisher of MacAdam, he grabbed a chair and hoisted it over his head, and we all followed him through the bar and out onto the sidewalk.”
Dismantled Banksy ‘Dismaland’ Parts Head To Refugee Camp In France
“It has all been taken down now and we are left with huge sheets of wood which we can use to build the shelters. Dismaland is also sending a team of chippies and builders out to the camp, who will be creating any structures that we need with the materials.”
If Broadway Saved NY, What Can Theatre Do For Chicago?
“Are there lessons here for Chicago? Sure there are. But it’s worth noting first that what one urban reformer sees as an improvement, another sees as the destruction of an indigenous culture. Riedel barely notes this issue, since the theater owners are the heroes of his story, but if you walk through Times Square today, as I frequently do, it has lost much of its character. “
New York Arts Groups Come Asking: Spare A Few Billion?
“It’s the kind of boom that can be stirring for art fans but that raises questions about how all this money can be raised simultaneously, particularly when foreign markets have created some financial uncertainty. It’s also not clear the city will continue to be as generous toward cultural capital projects as it was under Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.”