“The music returned to Hilbert Circle Theatre Tuesday after musicians and their employer reached agreement late Monday on two new contracts; one a ‘bridge’ agreement that will carry the organization through Feb 3, 2013, and one that starts the following day, providing that the Indianapolis Symphony Society reaches a lofty fundraising goal.”
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Dance Theatre Of Harlem Is Back
“Only a year ago, Dance Theatre of Harlem’s rehearsal studios at 466 W. 152nd St. were quiet. …. There were no professional dancers, only students who one day hoped to make it to the world stage. And now, after an eight-year hiatus brought on by a $2.3 million debt, the studios are alive again as DTH prepares to launch its 2012-2013 season.”
France Scraps Plan To Include Works Of Art In Wealth Tax
“In a broadside at the proposed change, France’s top museums” – including the Louvre, Versailles and the Pompidou Centre – “sent a letter to the government warning that such a move could drive historic collections out of France and wreak destruction on the art world.”
San Diego’s Old Globe Chooses Shakespeare Maven As New Artistic Director
Barry Edelstein comes to the Old Globe from New York’s Public Theater, where he was director of the Shakespeare Initiative, which included overseeing the popular Shakespeare in the Park series. And from “1998 to 2003, [he] was artistic director of New York’s Classic Stage Company, an off-Broadway house that won six Obie Awards during his tenure.”
Michael Asher, 69, Pioneering Conceptual Artist
“But unlike other artists grouped under that umbrella, his work was not fueled by political dogma as much as intelligence and curiosity: How will your art experience change if you alter a choice operating assumption, often in the form of a key architectural element?”
Actor And Author John Clive, 79
“Clive, who was the voice of an animated John Lennon in Yellow Submarine and appeared alongside Michael Caine in The Italian Job, died on Monday. His other credits include several Carry On films, Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange and two Pink Panther movies. … In later life, Clive went on to become a best-selling author.”
Johnny Depp (Yes, The Actor) Gets His Own Imprint At HarperCollins
The imprint, called Infinitum Nihil (“nothing is forever,” and also the name of Depp’s film production company), already has several titles in the works, including a Bob Dylan biography by historian Douglas Brinkley and an unpublished novel by folk singer Woody Guthrie.
The French Are Not Impressed With Fifty Shades Of Grey
“So as French bookshops prepare to take stock of the British bestseller … or, as it is called in French, Cinquante nuances de Grey … our Gallic cousins would like us to know that they have nothing to learn from us Anglo-Saxons in matters of sadomasochism.”
Duluth Festival Opera To Leave Duluth
“According to Artistic Director Craig Fields, the DFO simply is not receiving the kind of community financial support it needs to survive. … Fields, a resident of the Twin Cities, wants to relocate the company to the metro area with a new board, under a new name.”
Maggie Smith Has Had Enough Of Hollywood’s Youth Obsession
She argues that studios treat audiences “as if they were five years old. … It seems to me there is a change in what audiences want to see. I can only hope that’s correct, because there’s an awful lot of people of my age around now and we outnumber the others.”