The recent East Coast snowstorm left several cars and buses stranded on the street in front of Playbill’s printing plant in Queens – meaning the delivery trucks couldn’t get out to deliver the programs to New York’s theaters. But the show must go on, and with its Playbills …
Tag: 12.28.10
Theatre – When Everyone’s A Critic
“Over the past 12 months, blogging and tweeting audience members managed to get under the skin of the world’s top theatre-makers in a way professional critics haven’t for years.”
Assange Signs Big Book Deal
“WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange said in an interview published Sunday he had signed deals for his autobiography worth more than one million pounds (12 million euros, 1.5 million dollars).”
Crowsourcing Scholarly Projects
“Starting this fall, the editors have leveraged, if not the wisdom of the crowd, then at least its fingers, inviting anyone — yes, that means you — to help transcribe some of the 40,000 unpublished manuscripts from University College’s collection that have been scanned and put online. In the roughly four months since this Wikipedia-style experiment began, 350 registered users have produced 435 transcripts.”
A Switcheroo On UK Government’s Children’s Books Program? Shame!
“Ignore the obvious self-interest of authors in promoting reading, and expecting the taxpayer rather than publishers to fund it. There’s a bigger point: what, more than the original Booktrust project, could better exemplify the Big Society which Mr Cameron tirelessly promotes?”
The Royal Ontario Museum’s “Cabinet Of Curiosities”
“In so many museums, curators are telling the story of the objects on display–why this is in the collection, why that is an important piece–while we’re trying to use the objects in our collections to tell a story about how people go about their lives here and elsewhere around the world, and often about the intersection of the natural and cultural worlds,”
Five Underrated Dance Movies
Dance movies of all varieties occassionally break through to the mainstream — “The Red Shoes,” “White Nights” and “Center Stage,” to name just a few. But for every popular hit like “Black Swan,” many more fly under the radar and are barely noticed by the general moviegoing public.