“The new study, based on audience questionnaires passed out at 81 individual performances of 31 different productions between June 2011 and June 2012, showed that tourists accounted for 63.4 percent of Broadway ticket sales, up from 61.7 percent in the 2010-11 season. Foreign visitors accounted for a full 18.4 percent of tickets.”
Tag: 12.03.12
Why Won’t They Let Critics See Broadway Glengarry Glen Ross?, Fumes A Critic
Charles Isherwood: “Al Pacino is back on Broadway, or so I hear. I wouldn’t know from firsthand experience. … [It] seems to me that the case of Glengarry is an even more egregious attempt [than Spider-Man] to avoid critical scrutiny for mercenary reasons.”
Turner Prize Goes To Video Artist Elizabeth Price
“On the face of it they are wildly different: ecclesiastical architecture, a 1960s girl band performance and a terrible furniture store blaze that helped change UK fire laws. But Elizabeth Price’s powerful fusion of the three elements to make a 20-minute film seemed to grip audiences and led to her being named winner of the 2012 Turner prize.”
Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty Tops New York Film Critics Circle Awards
“It’s a busy day for pop culture news and a slow-drip day for movie news: All afternoon the New York Film Critics Circle has been revealing its year-end winners on Twitter. For its surprises, at least, the Bagger will say it was worth the wait.”
Cicely Tyson To Appear On Broadway After 30 Years
The 78-year-old Oscar- and Emmy-winner will play Carrie Watts in a revival of Horton Foote’s The Trip to Bountiful. While it will not ba an all-black cast, all members of the Watts family will be played by African-American actors.
Vanessa Redgrave And James Earl Jones To Play Beatrice And Benedick
“Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones will reunite on stage next year in Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing at London’s Old Vic. The actors will star as reluctant lovers Beatrice and Benedick for the first time in their long careers. The play is being directed by Mark Rylance, actor and former artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe.”
Dallas Museum Of Art Returning Looted Mosaic To Turkey
“The Dallas Museum of Art continued its newsmaking ways Monday: It is returning a rare piece of Roman art believed to have been looted from Turkey, while at the same time collaborating with Turkey in a new international exchange program.”
Starting An Orchestra In An Alaska Women’s Prison
“After serving a 14-year sentence for murder, no one would have expected Sarah Jane Coffman to go anywhere near the Hiland Mountain Correctional Center once she was released. But every Saturday she makes the 10-mile drive with a viola in tow for orchestra practice at the prison just north of Anchorage.”
Head Of Scotland’s Arts Funding Body Resigns After Months Of Conflict
“The head of the under-fire arts quango Creative Scotland has quit in the wake of a growing rebellion over the running of the organisation. Andrew Dixon resigned on Monday following months of criticism of the flagship quango from angry artists and arts organisations.”
What Went So Wrong At Creative Scotland?
Andrew Dixon arrived at the funding agency in 2010 after helping turn Newcastle and Gateshead from decaying northern English industrial towns to thriving arts hubs? A look at how a tenure that seemed so promising ended up so badly.