Sunday, March 15, 2015
“The Royal Court’s Vicky Featherstone was asked what might have helped her when she was developing her career. ‘Childcare,’ came the reply – or at least some tax relief…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00PM“In an interview on Friday, he traced the impulse behind the gift to a trip several years ago to London, where he saw Nicholas Hytner’s lavish adaptation of Philip Pullman’s ‘…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:40AMMonday, March 9, 2015
“Peterson offered the example of the prime-time, one-hour network show: Minimums dictate that a staff writer earns about $3,800 a week—and a fee of more than $36,000 for any episode …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:00AM“The topics of the day were listed on a white board: ‘Je Suis Charlie'; the governing African National Congress party’s convention in Cape Town; results of the nationwide matri…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AMSunday, March 8, 2015
“Despite average cuts of 19%, local authorities in England are still spending around £1.6bn on arts, culture and libraries. They remain one of our biggest investors. Moreover, they of…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:00PM“What further distinguishes Hamilton is that it uses rap to tell a story that has no direct connection to any usual rap subjects or characters. This reaches its most remarkable express…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:30AM“We call it LARP tourism — the chance to travel to worlds that don’t exist.”
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:30AMMonday, March 2, 2015
“In the years since leaving Canal Place, Southern Rep has almost settled in a new permanent location three times — in the Central Business District, Bywater and Mid-City. But eac…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:30PMSunday, March 1, 2015
“The lessons of Bloody Bloody are seen in American society today. Today, Native women are murdered at a rate higher than any other race in America. The majority of the perpetrators of …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:20PMMonday, February 23, 2015
“By the time the meeting broke up it looked as if a civil war were at hand and that, in an extreme rarity for the U.S. labor movement, a substantial force within a union was mobilizing…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:30PM“A roughly $21 million balance exists on the total purchase price of $24.75 million.”
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:00AMSunday, February 22, 2015
“My grandma walked straight to the president’s grave. She stood for half a second, then her neck arched back, her body heaved forward, and for the first time in my life, I saw my gra…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:30PMFriday, February 20, 2015
“Nowhere in the world can visitors walk by so many historic theaters and movie palaces. Block after block, stunning Beaux Arts, Art Deco, and revival-style buildings attract the eyes u…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:40AMMonday, February 16, 2015
“Improv theater is particularly helpful because it doesn’t rely on memorization, which patients may struggle with. Rather, improv is about going with the flow and enjoying the immedi…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:30PM“The Hayes is one of only 40 Broadway theaters, which rarely come up for sale, and it is widely regarded as a beautiful playhouse in a prime location.”
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:30AMSunday, February 15, 2015
“What’s not to like about a show in the early or late afternoon? Matinees are sometimes cheaper, frequently easier to secure a ticket for when a show is popular, and the transport op…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:15PM“It’s difficult for them to get up and speak in front of people who may employ them if they feel they might not get employed if they speak the alternate view from what the producers …
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:45PM“Your incredibly important show about your Furby collection will be rubbish. Live a little before you ask us to pay money and/or attention.”
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:15PMMonday, February 9, 2015
“There are four factors that Boston’s 300-year-long struggle between censorship and commerce in the performing arts has produced. First, when we talk about theatre in Boston as it no…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:00AMSunday, February 8, 2015
“To those who see aggressive audience participation as the cutting edge, even the future, of theatre—who talk about its emergence from video gaming and the digital revolution, etc.�…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:30AMTuesday, February 3, 2015
“The suburban musical houses are fighting tooth and nail for the rights to major hits, and I suspect the publishing houses are finding it hard to choose. They’re very competitive…
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:30AMSunday, February 26, 2012
I’m at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival for opening weekend, and I’m live-blogging this morning’s media coffee using Cover It Live – click the link below, and you shou…
SOURCE: 2AMT at 02:04PM 
