Category Archives: Gossip & Hearsay
Italian Festival Dumps Chip, Tells Friends She’d Get Into Bed With Charleston
Just because we’ve so far been unable to loosen any lips on next festival’s program doesn’t mean there’s no news to report. The other side of the pond has a Spoleto Festival, too, you’ll recall – the original one in Spoleto, Italy, begun in 1958 and known as the Festival of Two Worlds. Last spring, [...]
Only 24 Shopping Days Until Spoleto ‘08 Program Is Announced
It’s the middle of December, and, as if you haven’t been reminded of it every day since Thanksgiving, the number of days remaining until you’ve blown your chance to make up for the Christmas-themed underwear you gave somebody last year are ticking down at roughly the same rate your waistline is expanding. The very last [...]
Buzzcast central
On Friday, the Lowbrow slipped away from morning coffee for a duck into the ersatz podcasting booth at The Post and Courier, where he and fellow CP blogger Jonathan Sanchez became one with an entourage of that paper’s present and former Spoleto reporters and bloggers. Listen to the resulting “bloggers summit” podcast here.
After the big [...]
Throwing stones in Glass houses
Ninety-six degrees out there and rising. If we didn’t have calendars, that number alone would tell us the festival is drawing to a close and throwing open the door to the dog days of summer. There’s just about 28 hours left in Spoleto Festival 2007 – which means it’s not over yet for this Spoleto [...]
A dream within a dream
It’s hot out there. Welcome to summer.
Plenty of tickets left for State Ballet of Georgia’s Swan Lake, apparently, as the Big Festival seems to have set itself an uphill battle filling the Gaillard’s 2,700 seats for five performances of a 2-hour, 130-year-old classical ballet, ravishing as it may be. And word has it plenty of [...]
Goodbye Cirque, hello Aurélia
Who needs Cirque de Soleil? The Montreal European circus and performance act canceled their Sunday gig at the Coliseum, but we just got in a batch of previously unreleased photos from Aurélia Thierrée’s circus theatre work Aurélia’s Oratorio, which opens tonight at Emmett Robinson Theatre, and this blogger has a feeling it’s going to be [...]
That was a lotta Latin
It looks like there may be another booming storm cooking up out there, preparing to punctuate the tail end of a fine day. As with last week, Monday and Tuesday have been low on rollouts for the Big Festival, as it recuperates from a second crazy weekend and gathers itself for the last mad rush [...]
Spoleto central: Kudu Coffee
If, as Geoff and Dan at SpoletoToday have observed before, the Spoleto press room this year is not quite as buzzing with activity as in previous years, the unofficial top artist hangout spot this festival is more than making up for it. That would be African-themed Kudu Coffee on Vanderhorst Street, half a block from [...]
L’ile de Merlin welcomes a new character: Barry
In a post yesterday evening, New York Times blogger James Oestreich writes about the renovations Spoleto is undertaking of Memminger Auditorium and, once the festival is over, the Dock Street Theatre. He notes that the Dock Street will be out of commission for the next two festivals, and all its programming is to be directed [...]
Getting forensic on Spoleto 2007
The 31st Spoleto Festival USA is officially in the past tense. It’s now time to get forensic on the thing. But that’s less easy than it sounds. Part of the difficulty in summing up the festival after the fact lies in its nature; as Mayor Riley noted during the mid-festival tribute to founder Gian Carlo [...]