“Even as Broadway braces for the impact of the biggest U.S. financial crisis in decades, New York’s largest nonprofit theaters are hewing to ambitious expansion plans. As they’ve grown, so too has the pay of their leaders.” The heads of the Roundabout Theatre, Lincoln Center Theater, and Manhattan Theatre Club all earned north of $400,000 last year, while Minneapolis’s Guthrie Theater paid its leader $682,229.
Tag: 10.28.08
Henry David Thoreau, Climate Researcher
“Thoreau died in 1862, when the industrial revolution was just beginning to pump climate-changing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. In 1851, when he started recording when and where plants flowered in Concord, he was making notes for a book on the seasons. Now, though, researchers at Boston University and Harvard are using those notes to discern patterns of plant abundance and decline in Concord — and by extension, New England — and to link those patterns to changing climate.”
Picasso’s Cubist Harlequin Withdrawn From Sotheby’s Sale
“A Picasso Cubist painting that was to have been a star of Sotheby’s Impressionist and Modern art sale on Nov. 3 has been abruptly withdrawn from the auction. … It had been rumored for weeks that the work would be taken off the market because of fears that art prices were heading the way of the world financial markets.”
Royal Opera House Eyes Manchester; Grumbling Ensues
“Manchester could play host to an annual 18-week season of performances from the Royal Opera House” under a proposal that would see “the Palace Theatre in the city centre undergo a £100m refurbishment to transform it into a first-class home for lyric theatre and ballet.” But some fear that “that a refurbished Palace Theatre could cannibalise [local] audiences – and eat up public money.”