E-Cigarettes
Props: "In most venues by now, real cigarette smoking is viewed as the next plague. The fear is that lighting a single cigarette for a few seconds in a large, well-ventilated theater, is worse than the constant outpouring of pollution from 250 million cars, 600 coal power plants, and every other industrial process. But I digress."For Lady Gaga, Every Concert Is a Drama
NYTimes.com: "In her stunningly gruesome extravaganza at Radio City Music Hall, Lady Gaga scowls more than she smiles, muses about dying and appears on vast video screens vomiting, being slapped and generally being abused. “Fame is killing me,” she says. Death becomes her."
Stage Review: A witty, contemporary 'Mikado' at CMU
Post Gazette: "It isn't usual for me to get to shows by the CMU Music School (as opposed to Drama), but the current 'Mikado' offered three powerful attractions: it's Gilbert and Sullivan, and I'm an addict; it's directed by Gregory Lehane, an inventive director of comedy (disclosure: we work together on the annual 'Off the Record' spoofs); and it's designed by Peter Cooke, the new head of CMU drama, in what I'm pretty sure is his creative debut here."
No snow at Olympic site leaves VANOC scrambling
CBC News: "'We are planning that we will not have snow,' said Cathy Priestner Allinger, executive vice-president of sport and Games operations for VANOC.
Contingency plans are now being rolled out. They include using straw and wood in place of snow to build up the courses. Snow will then be brought in to layer over the straw and wood to build the course."
In Colorado, lobbying to keep smoking onstage
latimes.com: "Actors can't smoke - even tobacco-free cigarettes - during a play, no matter how crucial smoking is to the script, the state's high court rules. Two theater groups will continue to battle the ban."
Cooke Designs
Carnegie Mellon University: "Peter Cooke, head of Carnegie Mellon’s School of Drama, is a renowned scenograpgher, a theater professional who not only designs the set of a theatrical production but also designs the costumes. Cooke recently used his distinguished expertise to design the costumes and the set for 'The Mikado,' an opera set in an imaginary Japanese society."
Most stagings of Shakespeare don't go far enough
guardian.co.uk: "When a high-profile Shakespeare production gets inventive with the Bard, critics sometimes grumble. But occasionally the shock approach can help us appreciate how radical the playwright really was"
Monday, January 25, 2010
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