Last week state voters passed a measure that will pump millions into the arts. “The amendment could raise about $54 million for arts funding each year, which is 19.75 percent of the $270-odd million expected from the sales tax increase.” So, how to spend it?
Tag: 11.14.08
Newsflash: Opera In America Is Not Dying
From “High School Night” in San Francisco to the city-wide Ring festival in L.A. to the Met’s HD moviecasts to the fact that “Nearly every opera company in the country has a new work somewhere in its schedule” (per the chairman of Opera America), the art form is in good health, despite the financial crisis.
Patti LuPone’s Gypsy To Close March 1
“Patti LuPone is irreplaceable. So say the producers of Broadway’s Gypsy, who yesterday announced they would shutter the hit musical revival on March 1, 2009, rather than try to replace its bold, bossy and critically beloved leading lady.”
Sydney Dance Company Finally Gets Artistic Director
London-based choreographer Rafael Bonachela has just begun his tenure leading the popular and dynamic troupe. The SDC had been somewhat rudderless since longtime directors Graeme Murphy and Janet Vernon quit in 2006 over persistent money trouble; their planned successor, Tanja Liedtke, was killed in an accident shortly before she assumed the post.