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...American Repertory Theatre (ART) hires director Richard Woodruff to replace Robert Brustein as head of the theater company. The ART is known for its director-centric focus and its quirky, colorful adaptations of classic plays...
...theatergoers and are also notorious for booking at the last minute. To reach even the expected $1.4 million advance - modest for a big musical - the Really Useful team realize they will have to entice a white audience too.The show's scriptwriter Meera Syal, who starred in Britain's Asian-centric TV comedy hit Goodness Gracious Me, knows about crossover. After the series' vast popularity she famously remarked, "Brown is the new black." Can that sense of Asians as cool spread to this show? Syal is optimistic: "I think all audiences will get this...
...writing comix about how relationships evolve Andi Watson defies expectations. (The least of these is that he is not a woman.) He uses an art form associated with fast-paced, plot-heavy, male-centric fantasy to tell naturalistic stories of love and loss. Both "Slow News Day" and "Dumped" have a soft, subtle pleasure in their stories of the things that really matter. While "Spider-Man" may be the comic character of the moment, his extraordinary powers would be laughably useless in Watson's world...
...truism about American directors: you become who you were. Coppola, the former theater director and son of a classical musician, took the arty road, making operatic, actor-centric films that sometimes (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now) found large audiences. Lucas, who had written a third-grade theme that began, "Once upon a time in the land of Zoom..." and loved to tinker with cars, replayed his Modesto, Calif., adolescence in American Graffiti. Then he reworked the beloved comic books and B-movie serials of his youth into Star Wars, a film as stylized and sterile as a piece of abstract animation...
...fact that we are so tub-centric is not going to be effective,” Huidekoper says...