curated: Mark Rylance quits Royal Shakespeare Company over BP sponsorship
Ouch. The arts are so underfunded that they rely on corporate sponsorship… but that sponsorship can be a way for a big corp to wash its karma.
RSC
I’m on BBC World Service’s “The Arts Hour” again this Sunday Saturday, March 30th
Unlike previous episodes of “The Arts Hour,” I’m the only in-studio guest. So you might hear a bit more from me this time.
RSC’s Richard II (starring David Tennant) rating: green light
A must-see for David Tennant fans who couldn’t get to London or Stratford for the RSC’s electric production; he’s as dynamic on stage as he is on screen.
what’s the best meal you’ve ever had?
In a restaurant, at home (or someone else’s home), whatever.
Stratford-upon-Avon photo of the day: flying words at the RSC
“Words make the man”? “Words fly when you’re having fun”?
Stratford-upon-Avon photo of the day: the Black Swan pub (aka the Dirty Duck)
The pub sign for The Black Swan in Stratford-upon-Avon, aka the Dirty Duck…
Armond White makes Annette Bening cry; Fight Club: The Musical?; Wal-Mart woos NYC with ad campaign; more: leftover links
Plus: Will Natalie Portman’s pregnancy win her an Oscar?; watch out for ‘Ghost Rider 2’; accusations of fraud and corruption at the Golden Globes; more…
Mark Wahlberg admits ‘The Happening’ was terrible; Billy Bob Thornton says Hollywood is terrible; a female Old Spice Man spoof; more: leftover links
Plus: first-grader teased over her Star Wars water bottle; journalistic ethics getting a workout; saga of a film critic banned from screenings who got her buddies at The New York Times to intervene; more…
Hamlet (review)
David Tennant’s *Hamlet* comes to DVD in a superb hybrid of theater and film…
David Tennant’s ‘Hamlet’ tomorrow night on PBS
At long last, the filmed version of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Hamlet — starring David Tennant, with Patrick Stewart as Claudius — is arriving on American television, on PBS’s Great Performances: Shakespeare’s immortal “To be, or not to be” takes on a whole new meaning (and medium) as classical stage and screen actors David Tennant … more…
