“With days to go before Glyndebourne opens only its second staging of the Britten chamber opera it premiered,” the renowned actress and budding director “reflects on bravery, burial and layers of darkness.”
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Behind The Scenes With The Booker Prize Jury
“Who threatened to throw himself off a balcony? Who was chatted up by Saul Bellow? From the very first award in 1969 up to last year’s prize, a judge from each year of the Booker gave us the inside story on how they reached their decision. Click on the dates and dots along the top …”
Are Artists To Blame For Gentrification? Probably Not
“The current narrative – in newsrooms, in think tanks, in studios and galleries – has art at the bleeding edge of urban transformation. But this narrative is wrong – or at least it keeps getting told in the wrong way.”
New Theory May Explain Where Old Memories Go
The explanation by researchers from Johns Hopkins University “rests on the premise that memories are transformed each time we revisit them. … Every reactivation re-encodes the memory, and depending on what cortical neurons are engaged, can strengthen, weaken or update particular memory features.”
Rocky Horror Picture Show Becomes Therapeutic Vehicle
Midnight showings of the cult classic in several cities feature, along with the usual audience participation, “shadow casts” – people of varying shapes and sizes who act out the script in costume on a stage in front of the screen. A number of shadow cast members are finding that the performances help them overcome body shame, especially around fat.
What Exactly Is James Franco Doing? (What Isn’t He Doing?)
“What could he do that would seem out of place? What could he do that you really wouldn’t expect? … He could show up in oil paintings, on a sitcom, as a Jeopardy! contestant, as the announced star of So Fast & Extra Furious 8, or in hard-core pornography, and nobody would really think it was anything other than a further example of Well, That’s James Franco For You.”
How The US Government Shutdown Impacted The Arts
In oh so many ways…
France’s Bishops Re-Word The Lord’s Prayer (To Avoid Blasphemy, No Less)
“In a ruling long advocated by traditionalists and with implications for other-language versions of the prayer, the bishops have approved a new edition of the French-language bible which will include a revised wording of one of the prayer’s best-known lines, ‘Lead us not into temptation’.”
Paul Rogers, 96, Acclaimed Actor Of Stage Classics
“With leading-man good looks, an uncommon diligence in preparing for a role and a fervid curiosity that led him across the breadth of the Shakespeare canon, Mr. Rogers spent his early career largely with the Old Vic company, first in Bristol and later in London, compiling a résumé of remarkable variety.”
This Is Surely The First Opera To Combine Vuvuzelas And Blood Libel
“The blaring horns popularized by South African soccer featured in the premiere of Hungarian conductor Iván Fischer’s The Red Heifer about a murder blamed on Jews in northeastern Hungary.”