The Stratford Shakespeare Festival’s staging of Shaw’s drama, starring Christopher Plummer, will be shown in one-night gala screenings at 80 Cineplex theaters across Canada. In a separate deal, the production will subsequently be aired north of the border on CTV-Bravo!.
Tag: 11.01.08
Milwaukee Shakespeare Dies, Victim Of Wall Street Turmoil
“Milwaukee Shakespeare’s lightning-quick demise last week has a bitterly ironic parallel with the financial market forces that caused it. Just as several venerable Wall Street firms suddenly collapsed with virtually no warning, Milwaukee’s 8-year-old Shakespeare troupe made an abrupt and shocking exit from our arts community.”
Dramatic New Theatre Sprouts In UK’s East Midlands
“Rising… from the heart of Leicester’s new cultural quarter, the Curve makes the powerful, dramatic statement that here is a city that can think outside the box. What the new building doesn’t shout, in any obvious way, is “theatre”. Yet a theatre is exactly what this £61 million architectural dazzler is.”
When Speaking Well Was A Good Thing
“It’s strange to remember there was once a time when highly literate speeches were all the rage. Tragically, that was almost four centuries ago.” Author Sarah Vowell’s latest book explores the language used by America’s earliest settlers, and how it impacted the way we still talk today.
Bringing Art & Pop Music Together Again
“Two major, fortuitously concurrent exhibitions in Montreal this fall explore the relationship between art and music: Warhol Live, organized by curator Stéphane Aquin at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (examining the Pop artist’s musical affiliations and tastes) and Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, touching down at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. Both shows attempt to bridge the gap between sound and sight.”
Riedel To NY Theatre Critics: You Won’t Be Missed
With newspapers struggling nationwide, it’s no surprise that theatre critics are in danger of joining the endangered species list, even in New York. “But is it such a bad thing for the theater if a tiny group of older, mostly male critics no longer have make-or-break power? Many bloggers on All That Chat write as well as members of the New York Drama Critics Circle. And who’s to say their opinions are any less valid?”
Cleveland Art Institute Prez Retiring
“David Deming, president of the Cleveland Institute of Art since 1998, announced Friday he will retire from leadership of the four-year independent art college in two years… On Deming’s watch, the art institute began the transition from a five-year undergraduate degree program to a four-year one, aimed at making the college more affordable and more competitive with peer institutions.”
Changing Hollywood’s Business Model From Within
“Strike.TV was born on the picket line. The new Web site, which started this week, was conceived of during the Hollywood writers strike earlier this year, which was largely over how to divvy up revenue from online entertainment and effectively shut down Hollywood for more than three months… Months later and after much anticipation, Strike.TV has gotten under way as a portal for professionally created Web series.”
Well, Mr. Blackwell’s Dead, So…
Being shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize is stressful enough for any author. Deciding what to wear to the awards ceremony when your nominated book is entitled The Clothes on Their Backs… now, that’s pressure.
Who Were The Best Presidents? (Make-Believe Edition)
If only real life were like Hollywood, George W. Bush might have turned out to be a great president. “In an ideal world it would be great to have a president who can kick some ass,” wrote one film critic after seeing Harrison Ford in Air Force One. In our non-ideal world, of course, nuance is more valuable to presidents than ass-kicking skill, but nuance doesn’t make for very good Hollywood cliffhangers, does it?