Tag: 12.04.18

C’Mon People – Your Behavior In The Theatre Is Dreadful!

Every night there is bad and thoughtless behavior conducted by people who may have spent hundreds of dollars on theater tickets yet seemingly have no idea how to behave in an actual theater. Why should you check that your phone is off, because, gee, that would be way too much trouble. Puleeze, that recorded announcement doesn’t refer to you! An hour later, that ringing sound: Oh, sorry everyone, is that me? Yes, it’s you! Look, you’re in public at the theater! Who knew! – The Daily Beast

The Whole Concept Of The ‘General Audience’ Is A Myth

Playwright Alana Valentine: “Are we not part of a generation whose success has been to interrogate all forms of generalisation? So why do we continue to refer to a general audience? And please, I’m not taking issue with the nature of the adjective as a collective descriptor, I’m actually leaning into the definition of general as imprecise, inexact, sweeping, and vague. I’m questioning what it is that we’re referring to as general.” — ArtsHub (Australia)

What Happened When A Maasai Delegation Visited An Oxford Museum To See Where Their Sacred Belongings Ended Up?

“The Pitt Rivers has more than 300,000 objects in its collection, many of which were ‘acquired’ by colonial functionaries, missionaries and anthropologists in the heyday of the British empire. … Keenly aware of its problematic origins, the Pitt Rivers, like many museums, engages ‘originating communities’ – in the museum-world lingo – to allow them to reclaim the narrative around their objects. Last month, [elder Samwell] Nangiria, with four other Maasai from Tanzania and Kenya, and help from the Oxford-based NGO InsightShare, returned to do so.” — The Guardian

‘Call Me By Your Name’ Author André Aciman Says He’s Working On A Sequel

The director of the novel’s 2017 film adaptation, Luca Guadagnino, has said several times that he planned to do a sequel (or perhaps even a franchise along the lines of the Before Sunrise/Before Sunset/Before Midnight series). But the little that the author had said about it wasn’t encouraging. (The novel already includes an epilogue with the two protagonists in middle age.) But a tweet from Aciman this week indicates that he’s changed his mind. — IndieWire

Harlem’s Apollo Theater To Build Two Additional Performance Spaces

“[The] two new spaces — one with 99 seats, another with 199 — [are] part of the redevelopment of the Victoria Theater, a few doors away, on West 125th Street. The resulting Apollo Performing Arts Center … will be used to incubate works by up-and-coming artists, particularly performers of color, who might not be ready for the main theater’s 1,500-seat auditorium, Apollo executives said.” — New York Times

Italy’s Highest Court Rules That Getty Bronze Must Be Returned

“The ruling by the Court of Cassation was handed down Monday after a long battle over the ancient Greek bronze, which was found by Italian fishermen off the Adriatic coast in 1964 and purchased by the Getty in the UK for almost $4m in 1977. The court was rejecting the Getty’s appeal of a ruling in June by a lower court in Pesaro stating that the statue must be returned.” — The Art Newspaper

Actor Philip Bosco Dead At 88

While he appeared in roughly a dozen films (including Working Girl, Children of a Lesser God, Three Men and a Baby, and The First Wives Club) and guest-starred on many a television series, his great love was live theatre: he acted in 50 productions on Broadway alone and garnered six Tony nominations, winning in 1989 for Lend Me a Tenor. — Hollywood Reporter

Film Made On iPhone Wins 2018 Turner Prize

Bridgit, “a series of short clips filmed on an iPhone featuring the Scottish countryside from a train window, a T-shirt on a radiator and a cat pawing at a lamp has helped Charlotte Prodger win the 2018 Turner prize. … The Glasgow-based artist has been making moving-image works for 20 years and is on many contemporary art radars, but she is far from being well known.” — The Guardian

Conductor Daniele Gatti, Fired After Sexual Harassment Allegations, Gets Big New Job In Rome

Four months after Gatti was sacked as chief conductor of Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, one of the most prestigious jobs in the entire music world, he has been appointed music director of the Italian capital’s opera house, the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, effective immediately. Gatti is the first person to hold the music director post since Riccardo Muti resigned in frustration in 2014. — Gramilano (Milan)