V&A Museum Selects Architect for New Scottish Branch

“Japanese architects have won a competition to design the first dedicated museum for the [Victoria & Albert] outside London, a low-slung angular building on the banks of the river Tay [in Dundee]. The ‘bold and ambitious’ design by Kengo Kuma & Associates, [is] a two-part structure of close-fitting slabs made from a stone compound and glass.”

What Makes Theater Folk Keep Riffing on Chekhov?

“There’s a Trinidadian Three Sisters, a Liverpudlian Three Sisters, … Uncle Vanya has visited North Wales and Australia, and in Drowning Crow, The Seagull plays out in the black artistic community of South Carolina … Other plays have wondered how Arkadina reacted to her son’s suicide and how the sisters would actually fare if they ever got to Moscow. … What hubristic impulse is it that draws us to rewrite this man and his work?”

Morphoses Settles on a Post-Wheeldon Plan

The ballet troupe which was founded as “Morphoses: The Wheeldon Company” was in a bind after Christopher Wheeldon abruptly left the organization in February. “His co-founder and the company’s director, Lourdes Lopez, said on Wednesday that a different artistic director will be put in place each season. First on the list is Luca Veggetti, the Italian stage director and choreographer.”