Sinead O’Connor’s Memoir Promises Deep-Dish Dirt By GRAHAM BOWLEY / The New York Times The Irish singer Sinead O’Connor plans to follow other music stars like Keith Richards by writing her memoirs, her publisher announced today. The book does not yet have a title, but publication is planned for March 2016, and the 47-year-old Ms. O’Connor promises…
Read moreMore Paris Institutions Turn to Crowd-Funding By DOREEN CARVAJAL / The New York Times PARIS — The Louvre kicked off its latest crowd-funding campaign on Tuesday with an appeal for a million euros to help fund the €12.5 million purchase of a jeweled piece of 18th-century furniture, known as the “Table of Peace,” which belonged to…
Read moreNational Theatre generates record £100m income By: Michael Quinn / THE STAGE NEWS (UK) The National Theatre generated record-breaking income of £99.9 million in 2013/14, with ticket sales from NT Live screenings to cinemas at home and abroad increasing 179% from £2.4 million in 2012/13 to £6.7 million. The theatre’s annual trading report, which covers…
Read moreThree Ballet Theater Principals to Retire By MICHAEL COOPER SEPTEMBER 30, 2014 6:00 PM American Ballet Theater will celebrate its 75th anniversary this season by performing key dances from its past, staging a new production of “The Sleeping Beauty” choreographed by Alexei Ratmansky, and appearing as the subject of a new public television documentary…
Read moreNew York Film Festival: A ‘Genius’ Grant Winner and His Unblinking Camera By LARRY ROHTER / The New York Times No documentary in recent years has had a greater impact on both the public and filmmakers than Joshua Oppenheimer’s “The Act of Killing,” an examination of government-directed mass killing that took place in Indonesia…
Read moreKirkus Announces Finalists for Book Prizes By JOHN WILLIAMS / The New York Times The literary journal Kirkus Reviews has announced the finalists for its first annual book prizes. The honors for fiction, nonfiction and young readers’ literature each come with a $50,000 award, making them among the most lucrative in the literary world. The…
Read more‘Sleepy Hollow’ Recap: Ben Franklin Taps His Inner Frankenstein By NEIL GENZINGLER / The New York Times Season 2, Episode 2, “The Kindred” Franklin; Frankenstein — it seems so obvious now. The second episode of “Sleepy Hollow” on Monday night brought Mary Shelley’s monster into the show’s mythology, giving Ben Franklin the role of Victor Frankenstein….
Read moreSophie Hannah Talks About Rebooting Agatha Christie’s Poirot By ALEXANDRA ALTER / The New York Times Literary reboots can be tricky. Many, like William Boyd’s James Bond novel and Joanna Trollope’s modern take on Jane Austen’s “Sense and Sensibility,” have received lukewarm reviews. Some are met with indignation bordering on outrage. “Worse than bad fan fiction” was…
Read moreU2 Releases New Album for Free on Apple’s iTunes By JON PARELES / The New York Times With virtually no advance notice, U2 has released “Songs of Innocence,” its first album since “No Line on the Horizon” in 2009. Like Beyoncé and Radiohead before them, U2 skipped the elaborate promotional buildup that usually precedes a long-awaited…
Read moreHawke, Gere to Be Honored at New York Film Festival By ALLAN KOZINN / The New York Times The Film Society of Lincoln Center will honor Ethan Hawke and Richard Gere in separate tributes as part of the New York Film Festival. Each will be the subject of one of the festival’s “An Evening With…” programs…
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