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Playing For The Screens – Is Our Obsession With Video Changing The Live Arts Experience?

January 20, 2016 by Douglas McLennan 4 Comments

One weekend last November, the biggest box-office at movie theatres throughout the UK wasn't for the latest Hollywood blockbuster (the latest "Hunger Games" movie opened that Friday). It was for a live broadcast of Kenneth Branagh’s production of "The Winter’s Tale" which was streamed live to 520 theatres in the UK and 100 more internationally on November 26. Starring Branagh and Judi Dench, it … [Read more...]

Howard Mandel on Five Things to Fix in the Arts: “Robert Ashley, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Davis, George Gershwin, Philip Glass, Larry Harlow, Jerome Kern, George Lewis, Frank Loesser, Stephen Sondheim,…” Aug 11, 18:18
Ravi Narasimhan on Five Things to Fix in the Arts: ““And I also understand what you’re saying about opera. ” No, I don’t think you do. Opera addresses a small…” Aug 11, 17:38
william osborne on Five Things to Fix in the Arts: “that should be “can’t solve”” Aug 11, 13:19
william osborne on Five Things to Fix in the Arts: “A good summation of the problems the USA faces. We can solve our problems because our political system is truncated…” Aug 11, 13:19
Ravi Narasimhan on Five Things to Fix in the Arts: “America is exceptional – it is a market, not a society. A good chunk of the public does not care…” Aug 10, 16:18
william osborne on Five Things to Fix in the Arts: “Thank you for these interesting thoughts. Yes, we have some igreat big bands, but none of them are full time.…” Aug 10, 15:32
william osborne on Five Things to Fix in the Arts: “I think it might help overall if people considered the narrowness of our political spectrum and how this affects our…” Aug 10, 15:02
Frank Byrne on Five Things to Fix in the Arts: “Thank you, Doug. Your words are Insightful and appropriately provocative, and much needed right now. Many of us appreciate you…” Aug 10, 14:35
Howard Mandel on Five Things to Fix in the Arts: “I see you’ve edited your remark, but I didn’t write that I don’t care about opera — I wrote that…” Aug 10, 14:12
william osborne on Five Things to Fix in the Arts: “The funding for opera in Europe correlates to all of the performing arts, and all of the other arts, and…” Aug 10, 12:50

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