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Baker’s Comedy About Theatre Games, ‘Circle Mirror Transformation,’ Opens in NYC (Playbill)

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Playbill – The world premiere of Circle Mirror Transformation, Annie Baker’s new play about New Englanders enrolled in a drama class – and how it changes them – opens Off-Broadway Oct. 13 after previews from Sept. 24.
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VW Tests Its ‘Fun Theory’ In A Swedish Subway Station

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Volkswagen’s idea (fleshed out at thefuntheory.com) is that if you make something that’s good for people - like taking the stairs instead of the escalator - fun, people will actually do it. Their latest demonstration project is turning the stairs in a Stockholm subway station into a giant piano keyboard; step on a key and get a note. And it’s working….
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Pompidou Celebrates Pierre Soulages, Indisputably the Greatest Living French Painter

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PARIS.- With this major retrospective, the Centre Pompidou celebrates the work of Pierre Soulages, indisputably the greatest living French painter. Soon to be ninety, Soulages, the “painter of black and light,” is recognized as one of the major abstract artists of the post-War period. The Centre Pompidou staged its first major exhibition of Soulages’s work in 1979, which followed another held at the Musée National d’Art Moderne in 1967, before the Centre opened. Looking back over more than 60 years of activity, this autumn’s exhibition will offer a new reading of the artist’s work, with an emphasis
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Britain’s Wolfman hopes to give wolves a voice (Reuters)

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Reuters – Known as the Wolfman after living with packs of wolves, Shaun Ellis is the first to admit his controversial research is shunned by academic circles, but he remains undeterred from his message of conservation.
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Temporary Truce At Escondido, Cal. Arts Center

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“Turmoil at Escondido’s struggling performing arts center was partly alleviated this week when city officials agreed to tell arts center trustees how their performance would be judged and what might prompt the city to reduce their power. The move comes one week after city officials threatened to withhold operating cash from the center.”…
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British Artist Damien Hirst Presents New Paintings at the Wallace Collection

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LONDON (REUTERS).- British artist Damien Hirst has made a reputation, and sizeable fortune, from suspending animals in formaldehyde and filling medicine cabinets with pills. Now one of the world’s most successful living artists has returned to more traditional territory of painting, and this time, unlike his mass-produced canvases covered in colored spots, the 44-year-old actually executed them himself. Hirst has displayed 25 new paintings, mostly featuring white skulls on blue-black backgrounds, at London’s Wallace Collection, a family collection of old masters housed in gilded, silk-walled opulence. “It’s quite funny isn’t it? You kind of think you’ve done all of that formaldehyde work, and then it’s a real shock that you’re doing something quite straightforward,” Hirst told a small group of reporters at the museum Tuesday. “When I’ve got them (the new paintings) up in my studio next to spot paintings and spin paint
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Jack Viertel Creating New Randy Newman Musical for Mark Taper Forum (Playbill)

admin — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 08:30:23 +0000

Playbill – “Short People,” anyone? The work of songwriter Randy Newman will echo in a new musical, Harps and Angels, in fall 2010, at Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, Variety reported.
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Oregon Ballet Theatre Chief Exec. Steps Down Under Pressure

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“Two days before the opening of Oregon Ballet Theatre’s 20th anniversary season, the company and its embattled executive director, Jon Ulsh, are parting ways.” Last month, “a letter calling for Ulsh to resign was signed by a large percentage of Oregon Ballet Theatre staffers and delivered to the board of directors.”…
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Helly Nahmad Gallery Opens Claude Monet Retrospective Exhibition

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LONDON.- This autumn Helly Nahmad Gallery presents a retrospective exhibition by the acknowledged principal of the French Impressionist school, Claude Monet. Taking in his diverse styles from the 1870s as he explored a wide range of subjects in all seasons and all types of weather in his commitment to painting in front of his motif, to the archetypal scenes of summer sunlight on the Seine at Argenteuil and the rural town of Vétheuil. This chronological survey touches on the artist’s trips to London and Venice and the series works he embarked on at the turn of the century; depicting the essential character of these great cities enveloped by the most atmospheric effects of dense smog or luminous light.
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‘The Blank Page’, About Novelist and Her Obstacles, Begins Premiere Run in MI (Playbill)

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Playbill – Michigan playwright Kitty Dubin’s latest play, The Blank Page, about a frustrated writer, gets its world premiere Oct. 13-Nov. 8 by the Jewish Ensemble Theatre in suburban Detroit.
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