Friday, November 27, 2015

Wallace Shawn

A life in theater, how it happens:

"About seven years later. In 1970, I started working as a writer for André Gregory and his acting company. And in those days André’s troupe used to teach acting workshops every summer at NYU, so for three summers I participated and sort of informally studied acting with André and his gang. And then in 1977 or so, Wilford Leach got Joe Papp to commission me to translate The Mandrake by Machiavelli. At that time I was totally broke—more than broke. I was enormously in debt, because I basically lived by borrowing money from friends. And when I completed the translation, Wilford said, to my amazement, The other actors and I would like you to be in the play. In the play? How could I be in the play? I’m not an actor! And Wilford said, It’ll be easy for you. You’ll be the prologue. You’re the translator, so that’s very appropriate. And then you can be the servant, because he really doesn’t do much. He’s onstage for the whole play, but he doesn’t have many lines. And he said they would pay me a hundred and twenty-five dollars a week. Well, Deborah, Wilford, and I were having dinner when this all came up, and I had been considering becoming a taxi driver. And Deborah said, Do this instead. It’s much better. Because you can’t really drive."


http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6154/the-art-of-theater-no-17-wallace-shawn
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Nutcracker, etc.

San Francisco Ballet Wows China and Vice Versa

Westfield San Francisco Centre Announces Annual San Francisco Ballet Nutcracker Under the Dome Holiday Festivities

Holiday Dance 2015: It’s that ‘Nutcracker’ time of year

Only in SF: Wooden Shack in San Francisco Sells for $408,000
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Tuesday, November 24, 2015

WIngs over the Golden Gate

James Fallows posted this video called Wings Over the Golden Gate while wondering about something I was always curious about, the early twentieth century movie accent.

Language Mystery: When Did Americans Stop Sounding This Way?

There's a follow up post.

Language Mystery Redux: Who Was the Last American to Speak This Way? A particular style of American English once dominated respectable discourse. Now it has entirely disappeared. When? Why? How?

And Readers have their say here:

That Weirdo Announcer-Voice Accent: Where It Came From and Why It Went Away Is your language rhotic? How to find out, and whether you should care.
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Sunday, November 22, 2015

Digital Underground



Living In The Digital Underground?




Giant head prop from Digital Underground tour stored in East Oakland parking garage



Humpty Hump's Head
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Saturday, November 21, 2015

Car Commercial on the Bay Bridge, Looking, Jocelyn Vollmar, SF Opera, Star Wars, Steve Jobs


CHP: Commercial shoot backed up traffic on Bay Bridge Saturday morning, undressed pedestrian earlier in the week, and we saw a bicyclist on the right lane of the lower deck on Thursday, a pickup truck stopped and got him to toss his bike in.


Star of ‘Looking,’ ‘Frozen,’ ‘Hamilton’ visits Sonoma

Jocelyn Vollmar, turning 90, recalls career at S.F. Ballet

S.F. Opera’s Massive Meistersinger Scores in Intimate Moments


S.F. Opera to open new performance venue in February

What The Steve Jobs Movie Should Have Been About, According To A Former Colleague

Disney-Pixar's Ed Catmull on 'Good Dinosaur,' Female Directors and Why Steve Jobs Would Be "Appalled" by 'Steve Jobs'

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Saturday, November 14, 2015

SF Opera, Steve Jobs, SF Ballet

San Francisco Opera to Present Wagner's DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NURBERG, 11/18

The ‘Steve Jobs’ movie may be biggest Apple flop since the Newton - Apple brings in more revenue in 38 minutes than ‘Steve Jobs’ has in five weeks

STEVE JOBS DIRECTOR DANNY BOYLE ON WHY THE MOVIE FLOPPED

S.F. Ballet losing 2 principal dancers
Sofranko has 1 foot in S.F. Ballet, 1 in his own company
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Friday, November 6, 2015

Carrie Nardello Open Studios, Jonathon Groff, Fall of the House of Usher, Steve Jobs


ARTISTS YOU SHOULDN’T MISS AT OPEN STUDIOS WKND 4 - Carrie Nardello

Hamilton's Jonathan Groff Set for Curran Theatre Interview Series - See more at: http://www.playbill.com/news/article/hamiltons-jonathan-groff-set-for-curran-theatre-interview-series-368444#sthash.iFDrzDfp.dpuf


HBO's 'Looking' Returns To Lower Haight Tonight

SF Opera produces Getty's 'Fall of the House of Usher'

'Steve Jobs' is such a box-office bomb, it's made only as much as Ashton Kutcher's 'Jobs'

Weekend Box Office: 'Intern' Tops $180M Worldwide, 'Steve Jobs' Tops 'Jobs,' 'Inside Out' Hits $850M - In sadder news, Universal/Comcast Corp.’s Steve Jobs lost 2,000 screens on Friday and earned $823k (-69%) in 421 theaters for a $16.6m cume. It has topped Jobs, for what that is worth.
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Sunday, November 1, 2015

Steve Jobs, SF Opera, Looking

Weekend Box Office: 'The Martian' Tops $425M, 'Steve Jobs' Falling Faster Than 'Jobs'

Steve Jobs Movie Is Being Sued For A Fishy Reason
Universal's 'Steve Jobs' Suffers Copyright Attack Over Shark Scene
Photographer sues over shark picture used in 'Steve Jobs'
UNFAIR USE - American Photo



We Need More Movies Like ‘Steve Jobs,’ So Long as They’re Not Like ‘Steve Jobs’ - The Federalist

Box office: Why did so few people turn out to see 'Steve Jobs'? - LA Times

Readers React The problem with 'Steve Jobs': fiction masquerading as fact - LATimes

What the Steve Jobs Movie Won't Tell You About Apple's Success

San Francisco Opera Announces Cast Update for THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER

San Francisco Opera's Magical Magic Flute, With Cool Animals, in English

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