Theater: Creating a kid-friendly version of ‘The Tempest’
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond VA: It’s got magic. And fairies. And monsters. And young lovers. It’s got a really, really big storm. What more could a kid ask for? But this isn’t your average Disney movie or the latest animated adventure from Pixar. This is Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” the famous comedy-romance that has been gracing world stages for 500 years. Only “The Tempest” that’s appearing at the McVey Theatre at St. Catherine’s School through March 30 isn’t just any “Tempest.”
25 College Diplomas With the Highest Pay
Forbes: Students who recently graduated from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science are making an average salary of $84,400. Engineering grads from Stanford are earning a bit less, $74,700. The third-highest salary for grads is for nursing school alumni from New York University, at $70,200. These numbers come from a new survey released by NerdWallet, a four-year-old personal finance website based in San Francisco. NerdWallet offers price comparisons for everything from credit cards to airport parking.
Playground 2013
YouTube: Playground recently celebrated its 10-year anniversary! Playground showcases original productions across all disciplines. Devised works include theatre, dance, and musical performances, as well as mixed media projects, films, installations, puppetry, murals, song cycles, and light shows.
Why British critics don't get The Book of Mormon
guardiannews.com: The Book of Mormon, the much-applauded musical from the creators of South Park, officially opened in London last week – and like the grinning, clean-cut missionaries whose story it relates, it's been getting some baffled reactions from the locals. Well, the ones who work as professional theatre critics, anyway. I saw it on Broadway last spring, and can't recall a more purely hilarious and heart-warming evening in years. But the Telegraph's Charles Spencer found it "hard to warm to", "decadent" and "self-indulgent". My colleague Michael Billington, though deeming it "perfectly pleasant", also called it "essentially a safe, conservative show for middle America", awarding three stars out of five. Quentin Letts, of the Mail, called it "cowardly, coarse, cynical" and "worth avoiding"; in the Times, Libby Purves found it "morally null" and even "pretty racist".
Filling the Empty Seats First
MARKETING THE ARTS TO DEATH: It’s 7:59 PM at a one-hundred-seat venue and a show is about to begin. Seventy-five seats have been sold since the on-sale date. The first tickets were sold to buyers who were eagerly waiting for the event to happen. As time went on more tickets were sold, but the relative enthusiasm of the buyers tended to wane as the sales campaign unfolded. Finally, in the days and hours before the event, a few stragglers tipped into the ticket-buying category and shortly before curtain time, the seventy-fifth buyer walked up to the box office. Who’s the most important customer?
Monday, April 22, 2013
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