Sightlines:
Winners of the nine USITT Awards for Young Designers & Technicians
in the Performing Arts have been selected for 2012. All winners were
nominated by USITT members. The adjudication process included jury
members whose areas of expertise matched the award categories working
with representatives of the individuals and companies who sponsor the
awards. The winners will be honored during USITT's Annual Conference
& Stage Expo in Long Beach California in March. Awards will be
presented during the Opening Night celebration on Wednesday, March 28.
The Hollywood Reporter:
In 1976, Congress, sympathetic to musicians who often sign away rights
for a pittance before they become stars, wrote Section 203 of the
Copyright Act, which gives those who sell music rights an opportunity to
"terminate" grants after 35 years, provided they give proper notice
between two and 10 years in advance.
TIME.com:
A Yale lecture capped at 270 students? And no wireless Internet
available? Dial up the anger on the New Haven, Conn., campus. After
Alexander Nemerov moved his popular course Introduction to the History
of Art: Renaissance to the Present from the Yale Law School auditorium
that easily fit about 450 students to the more cramped Yale Art Gallery
auditorium, he not only upset some students and alumni by capping the
class size at 270 because of the smaller venue but also shocked some
students who walked into a room devoid of wi-fi or cell service.
Styleite:
This is the height of New York ridiculousness,” a tall filmmaker told
us as we lingered at the bar, surrounded on all sides by the toweringly
tall legs of models looking ahead to Fashion Week. He had a point: there
we were, enveloped in a sea of 5’10″ size 2s at the Fashion
Week-friendly Standard Hotel. The room, like the models, was long and
skinny. There was no food, or beer even, only vodka — Smirnoff. This did
not look like a labor rally. But that is, in effect, what it really
was.
Theatre Ideas:
Fifteen years ago, Tony Kushner delivered the keynote address to the
assembled college theatre professors of the US at the Association for
Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) convention. His speech was printed in
January 1998 in American Theatre magazine (back when they thought that
opinion pieces had a place in their magazine, especially if they were
provocative opinion pieces). I urge you to read the whole essay; I'm
rereading it today.
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