Six months earlier, faced with the reality of closing Patrick’s Cabaret within the year, I had a great deal of difficulty finding resources to help me do it well. Even discussing a closure is taboo, so there is little documentation of best practices. This is the account of an organization at the end of its lifecycle, and how we embraced its final act and staged a beautiful end to its story.
Tag: 10.23.18
Study: Almost One-Third Of UK High School Students Don’t Know Who Shakespeare Was
Researchers gave 1,000 pupils a list of 13 names, including Alesha Dixon and Neville Chamberlain, and asked which were playwrights. Seven out of ten managed to pick William Shakespeare from the list.
YouTube Went Down For An Hour And… Traffic To News Sites Increased 20 Percent
A one-hour YouTube outage on October 16 at around 9 p.m. ET resulted in a 20 percent net increase in traffic to client publishers’ sites, Chartbeat found.
Intimacy Choreography: Developing Methods For Handling Sex Scenes On Stage
It wasn’t long ago that “we were sending these kids off on their own devices with no foundation for how to approach this stuff,” recalls acting teacher Adam Noble, who created Extreme Stage Physicality, one of the earliest formalized frameworks for actors and directors to use in intimate situations on stage. Carey Purcell talks to him and several others who have developed such methods.
Netflix Draws Fierce Global Competition
The push to create rivals to stunt the growth of Netflix has become a global phenomenon, as the streamer is now available in 190 countries and is poised to consistently make more money in the future abroad than in the U.S.
Apple To Roll Out New Streaming Video Next Year?
The service, which may exist as a standalone app or within the existing TV app, will launch in the US first and become available in more than 100 countries after a few months of availability, the report says. It will feature a mix of original programming, access to third-party services, and the ability to subscribe directly to channel packages offered by network and cable providers, similar to Amazon’s Channels feature.
Daniel Barenboim Returns To Chicago Symphony For First Time Since He Left Music Director Post In 2006
Why so long away? “Because when I finished, I finished – I don’t really believe in going back. … There was no special reason. But now when Mr. Muti asked me to come, I said, ‘Why not?'” Barenboim tells Howard Reich how it feels to be back and how the CSO is different from any other orchestra he’s worked with.
The Winner Of PBS’s Poll For America’s Favorite Book Is —
— by a sizable margin, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. “The voting process [for the Great American Read] wasn’t terribly scientific … but there are themes among the final 10: They’re largely geared at young readers, nine of the top-voted authors are white, and seven are women. Half are Americans, and the only living writers among them are [J.K.] Rowling and [Diana] Gabaldon.”
Intact 2,400-Year-Old Shipwreck, World’s Oldest, Found In Black Sea
“The 75-foot-long ship … appears similar to merchant vessels depicted on ancient Greek vases. A small piece of the wreck was raised and radiocarbon dated to around the fifth century B.C., a time when Greek city-states were frequently trading between the Mediterranean and their colonies along the Black Sea coast.”
New York City Allocates $198 Million To Culture Spending – Largest Ever
977 cultural organizations throughout New York City will benefit from the $43.9 million in grants. In 2014, the DCLA provided $31.3 million for cultural programs — 2019 represents a 40% increase.