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...While she hasn’t had the “life sentence” of working on all the Gideon tapestries conserved by the trust, she has been there for the project’s duration....
...George Gershwin came from Tin Pan Alley to write Porgy and Bess. Leonard Bernstein juggled opera and Broadway with equal panache....
...[But] we can’t be their therapist.”...
...(Steven Renwick / Medium) — Matt Levine explains the world (The Information) — Bess Levin explains the world more succinctly (Vanity Fair) — The bike thieves of Burlington, Vermont (New York TImes) —...
...Fashion isn’t the only place where the latest technology has changed the offering....
...Instead, it’s a gripping exercise in authorial power, as swift and thrilling as anything an ancient deity could muster up. ★★★★☆ To October 23, royalcourttheatre.com Camp Siegfried Old Vic, London Bess...
...I think those are questions that that really can’t be answered at the moment....
...“We’re seeing companies getting targeted because they haven’t woken up quickly enough.”...
...Look at any period in past history, and it’s easy to come up with features of staggering unfamiliarity (the past is another country, after all) and heartwarming sameness (human nature doesn’t change, does...
...For all that, the muse doesn’t always obey me. Orlando hasn’t been behaving himself today.” Her husband breaks in. “She has gone on with life just the same in lockdown....
...The “solutions aren’t available to us today” that would allow the company to explain how it could reach such a goal, he said....
...Jazz club Porgy and Bess, in central Vienna’s first district, converted most of its winter programme into online concerts streamed in real time where viewers could pay what they liked....
...We can’t just do a period piece: it has to be about now.”...
...Don’t discount more moves in this respect soon....
...But don’t be alarmed, we’ll just keep ploughing through, whatever it takes. Remember, it’s a good day to remain seated and ready to brace....
...But “authentic” doesn’t mean historically letter-perfect. For the huge funeral scene in Porgy and Bess, for example, she calls on her memories of church only to “pull out the core: the realness”....
...“We can’t do the Harry Potter thing of not mentioning the name ‘Voldemort’ [the AfD]. We need to show people what’s behind the mask,” he says....
...“They don’t say a singer didn’t get the part because of race. They say, ‘It’s not our idea [of the role]’. My teacher told me in the early days, ‘You have three strikes against you....
...Now for Mary Queen of Scots, Working Title, producers of that high-style mod Elizabeth with Cate Blanchett, fling another Australian at Queen Bess, Margot Robbie, while shaping an Irish brogue into a Scots...
...Throw in the biggest choir ever seen on the Coliseum stage, incorporating the company from Porgy and Bess and Finchley Children’s Music Group, with the percussion unleashing the forces of hell from the stage...
...He clarifies: “I don’t live in my flat; I sleep in it when I’m there, but the rest of the time I’m away from it.”...
...“We didn’t notice anyone applying this sort of thing to funerals.”...
...to sell the idea then don’t waste your time.”...
...He shouldn’t be there. He shouldn’t be there, and it’s as simple as that!”...
...Fortunately for Edmonds, his own nadir wasn’t the end of the story....
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