Despite an ever-increasing number of mouths hungry for a slice of the fundraising pie, New York theater stalwart The Actors Company Theater (Tact) recently announced that they were awarded a $50,000 matching grant from arts philanthropist Adrienne Arsht, and an additional $50,000 grant from the Agnes Varis Trust to provide funding towards the salaries of their performers and allow for reduced-price tickets during their 2012–13 season.These grants have expanded the artistic scope of Tact’s upcoming season. “The primary intent…was not to increase individual salaries, but rather to allow us to look at plays without thinking too restrictively about cast size,” Tact Co-Artistic Director Scott Alan Evans told Back Stage. “Last season we had a total of 11 actors on our mainstage. This season, we will have a total of 21. Additionally, the grant allowed us to raise the minimum salary by nearly 15 percent. Had we not had the enormous...
- 8/9/2012
- by help@backstage.com (Robert Silverman)
- backstage.com
Could Lars von Trier have finally destroyed his own career?
The big story
Every week is Lars von Trier week – especially if you're Lars von Trier. But the Danish director, normally so adept at winding up the press and film industry, may have finally put his foot irretrievably in it, have gone that bit too far, gone off the deep end once too often. When he made a crack at Cannes back in May about how he could "understand" Adolf Hitler, I bet he didn't think he'd be fielding questions from the Danish police five months later.
But that is what happened last Wednesday, according to a statement issued by von Trier himself. He said his local bobbies were acting on a "preliminary charge" issued by French prosecutors after his Cannes press conference. Even now, it's not clear if von Trier himself has the full story: the French authorities have...
The big story
Every week is Lars von Trier week – especially if you're Lars von Trier. But the Danish director, normally so adept at winding up the press and film industry, may have finally put his foot irretrievably in it, have gone that bit too far, gone off the deep end once too often. When he made a crack at Cannes back in May about how he could "understand" Adolf Hitler, I bet he didn't think he'd be fielding questions from the Danish police five months later.
But that is what happened last Wednesday, according to a statement issued by von Trier himself. He said his local bobbies were acting on a "preliminary charge" issued by French prosecutors after his Cannes press conference. Even now, it's not clear if von Trier himself has the full story: the French authorities have...
- 10/6/2011
- by Andrew Pulver, Catherine Shoard
- The Guardian - Film News
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