by Judith | Feb 8, 2008 | Broadway, Dance, Film, Musical Theater, Playwriting/Screenwriting, Uncategorized
How does one measure excellence in the arts? That’s a question that has always perplexed me. Certainly there are measurements of excellence that come into play in the various art forms but, once you go beyond the mastery of technique, how do you measure...
by Judith | Dec 15, 2007 | Broadway, College, General, Music, NYC, Playwriting/Screenwriting, Theater, Uncategorized, US Performing Arts
Last week as I was sitting in an airport waiting for my plane I had some time to read e-mail that I had set aside as “not a priority” when they first came in. One was a NY Times review of a new Broadway play by Tracy Letts, August: Osage County. When a...
by Judith | Dec 12, 2007 | Film, General, Playwriting/Screenwriting, Uncategorized, US Performing Arts
There are lots of movies made each year. The last study I saw showed that in the almost two decades since 1990, on an average, more than 4,500 films are made each year. That’s a lot of movies. That figure doesn’t even begin to take into account the...
