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...second installment of a season based around ideas of change and transformation, the Actors’ Shakespeare Project (ASP) undertakes one of the Bard’s great comedies to tragically underwhelming effect. Despite brief moments of inspired hilarity, ASP’s production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” which runs through January 24, falls short with a performance that lacks clarity and vigor...
...various romantic webs are clothed as middle-class suburbanites; conversely, their mischievous fairy counterparts are dressed in alternative, urban outfits. Unfortunately, this aesthetic is poorly defined and inconsistent. Oberon, Titania, and Puck are dressed as goths, while their fairies are hip hop dancers. To boot, the scenery centers around a yellow, graffitied car that could have been plucked directly from the 1960s. This array of clashing aesthetics diminishes the show’s overall effect by confounding the audience’s sense of place and time...
...their U.S. strategy of carpet bombing with prints and an ad blitzkrieg for new releases. Fox, say experts, released 700 film-reel prints to cinemas for exhibition of Avatar with a marketing and distribution budget of $1 million; 2012 was backed by 715 prints and an ad outlay of around $500,000. Three years ago, a big release meant releasing somewhere between 100 to 200 prints at a fraction of the cost. With films having smaller shelf lives now, companies are trying to capture cash flows in the first few days after their release, says KPMG's entertainment-practice head...
...like the ones that sparked the unrest are not uncommon. "We used to learn how to use our guns down there by shooting at dogs," says Saviano, who was brought up in the Naples area. "Now the 14-year-olds shoot at immigrants. It can look like kids fooling around, but it's not; it's target practice." The town's African population responded by burning cars and smashing shop windows, prompting retaliatory attacks by white residents. It was the fourth outbreak of violence in the region in recent years. Six Africans died two years ago in fighting...
...business deal that goes sour can get you fired. In Vietnam, it could cost you your freedom. For decades, Vietnam's economic growth has been the envy of its developing neighbors in southeast Asia. In the last 20 years, GDP growth has fallen only once below 5%, typically hovering around 8% as the single-party state has attracted tens of billions of dollars in foreign investment and seen poverty rates drop below that of India, China and the Philippines...