“‘Given that I have today discovered that more illegal copies of my book have been downloaded than I have sold, I am announcing officially that I will not publish another book for a long time,’ Lucía Etxebarria announced on her Facebook page.”
Tag: 12.20.11
Blood, Blokes, And The Bard: On Tour With Propeller
Actor Nick Asbury: “In the Green Room there is blood on the teaspoons. A bowl of intestines sits in the sink. Leeks are in the fridge. I’m on tour in Henry V with the Propeller theatre company, an all-male troupe … Which means that backstage it’s very smelly, the language is of the gutter, and the testosterone is off the charts.”
Italian Police Recover Hundreds Of Stolen Ancient Artifacts
“A total of 317 artefacts, valued at €500,000, were found at a developer’s house on the outskirts of Rome. A number of illegally excavated works decorated the exterior of the property.”
Barbara Hepworth Bronze Sculpture Stolen From London Park
“A Barbara Hepworth sculpture which is insured for £500,000 has been stolen by suspected scrap metal thieves from Dulwich Park in south London.”
What’s Ballet Next All About?
Charles Askegard, former New York City Ballet star and co-founder of the brand-new company: “It’s ballet plain and simple. Of course there’s nothing plain or simple about what we do.”
Fayetteville, NC’s Art Museum To Dissolve
“Board members for the Fayetteville Museum of Art plan to quietly dissolve their 40-year-old organization as early as this week, an official said Monday.”
Hollywood’s Weinstein Brothers Developing Their First Stage Musical
“The Weinstein Company, heavyweight producers in Hollywood, is moving ahead with development of its first stage musical, Finding Neverland, after staged readings of the script and score in London last week that executives deemed a success.”
Rambert Dance Company Gets Grant To Preserve Its Archives
“One of the UK’s oldest dance companies has been awarded £360,000 to preserve and display a century’s worth of costumes and film archive. The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) grant means Rambert Dance Company can display its historical collection when it re-locates to London’s South Bank in 2013.”
James Franco’s Yale Lit Professor Speaks (Yes, James Did All The Work)
“[On a movie set,] when you’re the star, you end up just sitting around a lot. … So when you see James’s character with his arm trapped under a rock in 127 Hours, what you don’t see is that there was an assigned reading under the rock with it.”
Explaining The Singing Christmas Tree
“[It] has become a tradition in the modern evangelical megachurch: the Singing Christmas Tree. In these productions, church choirs perform a musical celebration while standing inside an enormous Christmas tree platform that reaches to the ceiling, often accompanied by extravagant light shows, dancing church members, and sometimes even fireworks.”