Our big takeaway from the project was finding a common point of interest and building engagement with groups around that. If we started with people who were too far removed from the work, we failed. We had to be realistic about the learning journey audiences were on, given that we were only performing in venues for one or two nights, with an eight to ten week lead-in. We thought creatively about the elements of the production that the groups we hoped to engage might connect with. That could be anything from the politics, to the music or props, to the feel of the show (more like a gig or cabaret).
Tag: 11.22.18
Satanic Temple Settles Lawsuit Over Sabrina The Teenage Witch
Temple co-founder Lucien Greaves announced that his church’s intellectual property case against Warner Bros. and Netflix for copying the organization’s iconic statue of goat-headed deity Baphomet for the set of the series The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina has been “amicably settled.”
When The University Of Iowa Adds A TV Writing Course, You Know Times Are Changing
Blame, or credit, novelist David Simon and his series The Wire with leading the way.
Longtime Principal Dancer At Milwaukee Ballet Charged With Domestic Abuse
The complaint says Davit Hovhannisyan, who is 37 and has been with the company since 2004, “began to whip [his ex-wife]’s face with a bath rug and then slapped her with an open fist, saying, ‘Don’t make me do this.'”
A Bunch Of First-Year College Students Are Involved In ‘Common Reading’ Programs. But What Are They Reading?
In 2018, 481 U.S. colleges and universities picked common readers – and they prefer new or recent books to classics: “67 percent of common reading books assigned were published after 2011.”
Has Contemporary Poetry ‘Abandoned Craft,’ Or Are Its Critics Missing Something Important?
Novelist Rose Tremain and poet Robin Robertson have both railed against contemporary poetry in recent days. Whoops. “Detractors of new poetry make judgments about craft based on conservative assumptions about poetic traditions, forms, style. But radical aesthetics have their own craft and traditions, formed from intersecting political and linguistic concerns. So this isn’t a question of craft at all.”
So you want to see a show?
Here’s my list of recommended Broadway, off-Broadway, and out-of-town shows, updated weekly. In all cases, I gave these shows favorable reviews (if sometimes qualifiedly so) in The Wall Street Journal when they opened.
Half Of England’s Endangered Theatres Are On The Coast
Just under half of all UK theatres currently at risk are in coastal towns, the Theatres Trust has revealed, as it issues a plea for seaside venues to be “restored and repurposed”. By investing in the buildings, it claims that they could become cultural hubs to “serve their local communities and drive regeneration”.
Did Britpop Lead To Brexit?
What Britpop originally was – a way of reclaiming an identity for gaudy, magpieish British music from the grey blanket of grunge, then slapped on the cover of Select magazine in April 1993 – was not what it became. Of course it wasn’t: the essence of every pop movement is altered by exposure, when it becomes about its consumers’ interpretations rather than its creators’ intentions. Punk went from art school kids seeking to shock to blokes with mohicans drinking cider outside shopping centres. Britpop went from something arch and wry and awkward to beery singalongs with arms around shoulders. In that transformation, though, Britpop did give new vigour to a strand of conservatism that has long existed in pop music – the one that believes there is A Proper Way To Do Things.
A Crisis Of “Whom”
A few copy editors have proposed a radical solution to the “who/whom” problem: kill off the “whom.” And yet there are those who believe in “whom” and wish to see it used correctly.