The network will be a direct-to-consumers. subscription-based operation available on web browsers, iOS and Android devices and on Roku, with plans to expand later to set-top boxes, video game consoles and other platforms.
Why The Push To Require Paying Actors In Fringe And Showcase Productions Is A Terrible Idea
“It’s been horrible to watch our otherwise splendid union’s desperate attempt to boost membership by pretending there was enough money to be made in 50-seat fringe venues to convert [unpaid] productions into paying jobs. And so many of us swallowed it, seduced by the absurd idea that closing down voluntary fringe collaborations in tiny makeshift theatres would lead to paid employment.”
Horton Hears A (New Dr. Seuss Book)
Through painstaking work and a meticulous, almost forensic reconstruction of Mr. Geisel’s creative process, those abandoned pages have yielded an unexpected new Dr. Seuss book, now called “What Pet Should I Get?” When Random House publishes it on Tuesday, with a first printing of one million copies, it will add a surprising coda to Dr. Seuss’ sizable canon.
Now A Major Orchestra Is Trying A Pay-What-You-Think-It’s-Worth Night
“[The program] ‘Priceless Classics’ on 6 September will see the [Hallé] Orchestra play 10 short pieces at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall. Holders of pre-booked free tickets will then be able to pay whatever they think the event was worth.”
Who’s Supposed To Help Replace All The Arts Funding That Australia’s Cutting? The Big Arts Companies (?)
“Major arts companies will be expected to help dig smaller companies and artists out of the $105 million hole the federal Arts Minister George Brandis has left in the Australia Council budget – at least in [the state of] Victoria, says its Minister for Creative Industries, Martin Foley.”
The Biggest American Radio Star Most Americans Never Heard – And Perhaps The US’s Greatest Cultural Ambassador
“For 40 years, … [his broadcasts] constituted one of his country’s most effective instruments of cultural diplomacy.” He once said, “Jazz tells more about America than any American can realize. It bespeaks vitality, strength, social mobility; it’s a free music with its own discipline, but not an imposed, inhibiting discipline.”
How Joan Didion Went From Writer To Literary Celebrity
“Although she started to take on more political subjects in the late ’70s, the interest in her personal life – and her personal belongings – only grew. In the crossover of feminism, fashion, and literary interests, there is a whole swathe of the internet where Didion is a staple reference. Her borscht recipe can be found on the website Brain Pickings.”
Ravinia Considering New Model For Music Director As Conlon Departs
An alternate model? “A musical curator, someone who comes in for one year perhaps. Isn’t there something kind of exciting that someone could come in and talk about pop programming and jazz programming as well as chamber music recitals and what goes on at the CSO? For one summer? [They could] start working three years in advance, and we’d see what comes of it. I think we should explore that model.”
Is Live Theatre At Odds With Our Immersive Always-Connected Culture?
As Broadway faces off against pocket-size sound-and-light shows, performers and some patrons say a hyper-connected culture are shredding the immersive experience of live theatre.
The Problem With Children’s Theatre
The most progressive theatres are not for children. They are for people. The most anti-oppressive theatre methodologies (benefitting children, youth, AND adults), will, quite simply, consider and include children as “persons;” members of civic society.
Composer Oliver Knussen’s Performance At Tanglewood Canceled Because of Visa (Or Lack Of One)
Visa problems have resulted in the cancellation of another artist’s visit to Tanglewood. Earlier this season it was tenor Gwyn Hughes Jones, who had been slated to perform in Act I of “Tosca.” Now, the composer and conductor Oliver Knussen has been forced to cancel his appearance at the Festival of Contemporary Music, where he was to conduct a keenly anticipated memorial program in honor of the composer Gunther Schuller, featuring premieres by Schuller and Charles Wuorinen, on Thursday evening.
A Composer Marrying Data Representation And Music
“You’re never really told how to feel when you look at a chart, even though it may have to do with something that is very human like income inequality or climate change. It ends up being just information that you don’t really internalize or contemplate. So I wanted to figure out how to take something like a chart but curate an experience in which you’d feel a certain way while listening to the song.”
One-On-One Theatre (And Clean Dishes Too)
The premise for Brian Feldman’s show, “Dishwasher,” is this: He will come to a person’s house, wash all of the dirty dishes, perform a monologue of the audience’s choosing and then conclude with a single question: “Am I a better actor or dishwasher?”
What Professional Sports Has To Teach The Performing Arts About Audiences
“For sure, the comparison between sports and performing arts is limited: Obviously, there’s no element of competition, no TV contracts, and much less private ownership of venues. Nevertheless, there are approaches that may have resonance, and reflect the way innovation is transferable; the way experiments and breakthroughs in one field may affirm and encourage breakthroughs in another.”
Marvel Is On An Epic Streak Of Top Blockbusters
Last weekend, “Ant-Man” became the 12th consecutive Marvel Cinematic Universe movie to open at No. 1 domestically. That stat was thrown around a lot, and it made me wonder how difficult the feat was. It’s pretty tough!
Jennifer Homans Was Wrong: Ballet’s Not Dying, It’s Being Rejuvenated – And Here’s Why
“It’s an exciting time for the art form, with new works and artists emerging: there is plenty to look forward to. It’s very different to the sense of gloom I remember when I started watching in the Nineties.” Zoë Anderson has a theory about why ballet was in a funk 20 years ago (like so much else in the world, it’s about the ’60s) and why things seem so much more promising today.
World’s Largest Streaming Video Market Has Gone Mad For Korean TV
“China’s obsession with a South Korean television show about a 400-year-old Harvard-educated alien who falls in love with an arrogant actress reached such a frenzy last year that online streaming companies here began racing to snap up licensing rights for other South Korean television programs, inflating their prices almost tenfold.”
Theodore Bikel, Actor, Singer, And Social Activist, Dead At 91
“In a protean acting career, he played King Lear and other Shakespearean roles and appeared in countless television shows, from The Twilight Zone to Gunsmoke to Dynasty” – to say nothing of giving more than 2,000 performances as Tevye and creating the role of Captain von Trapp. “[He] could speak nine languages and sing in 21 … [and] helped found the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island.”
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Garrison Keillor: This Time I Mean It – I’m Retiring
In an interview Monday with The Associated Press, Keillor said he plans to step down as host after next season, following four decades of entertaining listeners with his baritone voice and folksy comedy sketches about Lake Wobegon, his mythical Minnesota hometown “where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.”
UK Culture Department Told To Prepare For 40 Percent Budget Cut
“Chancellor George Osborne announced that in order to make £20 million of government savings, unprotected departments – everything aside from health, schools, defence and foreign aid – needed to plan for two scenarios: a 25% cut or a 40% cut. Savings would have to be made over the course of the next five years.”