December 2010

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Next Month

SPECIAL ISSUE

A Brief
But Quirky
History
of the
Arts

Theatre
Michael Bettencourt
The Nature of Human Nature
I wish my fellow playwrights would expand their thinking about what constitutes the human nature structuring both their characters and the narrative demands of the plays they are writing.

Perceptions
Arthur Meiselman
The Loss of Silence/Eat... and Be Happy
This, then, is the holiday season that closes the first decade of the 21st century. It is also the 100th anniversary of one of the most glorious years in Western history, 1910—a year of exciting promise, breathtaking art, panoramic smiles. 2010 is not like that.

Theatre
Nathan Thomas
By the Numbers
More than 42 million tickets were sold to people to see professional theatre of some kind in the 2008-09 season. That's a few tickets.  That's more tickets than people bought to see professional basketball and football combined.

History
Les Marcott
The Things You Leave Behind
Your eyes are drawn to toys along the curb – most in usable condition. Clothes piled into garbage bags – most still in fashion.  Lawn chairs still in place.  Then your attention is turned toward the house and a front door that is wide open.

Media
Claudine Jones
Fingers & Toes
It's pervasive, legendary & viral. The internet seems to be the first resource—'why don't you just google it?'—for a quick education. So naturally, when I was thinking about doing a piece on Glenn Close vs Meryl Streep, I knew I hadda make my choice: old school or IMDB

BOOKS
Steiny Road to Operadom
19th Century American
Writers on Writing
How they inform the work of Gertrude Stein and current day writers.
 Karren Alenier

CINEMA
La Femme La Mujer La Donna
Adventures in Roma: Take 2
I was in Rome last month, attending the International Rome Film Festival, and five days into the festivities I took a quick dive down a set of smooth marble stairs.
Lia Beachy

PLEASURES
Life Among the Heffalumps
10 Things to Do Before You Die
or During the Holidays
It's that time again.  Angels get their wings, sugar plum fairies dance
and you slink under the table
Kathi Wolfe

COMICS
Old Hippy
Methuselah Jones Rises
Elliot Feldman
 

The Rising Fall of the Arts January 2010 Click Here The One January 2009 Click Here What Is Art? / 2008 January 2008 Click Here View of the Arts/2007 January 2007 Click Here The Art of Sex in the Arts February 2006 Click Here State of the Art of the Arts October 2005 Click Here

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