Category: Entertainment and Media

Cirque Signs Keyboardist for Macao China

4 January, 2008 (17:12) | Music and Musicians

Cirque Du Soleil’s new show at the Sands Venetian in Macao, China has signed on Conrad Askland as keyboardist. The show is scheduled to open in Summer 2008. This will be Cirque’s first resident show in China and is rumored to be the most technologically advanced to date. For more info visit his Cirque Du […]

Performance Art

17 July, 2007 (14:36) | Acting, Entertainment and Media

 
Performance art is art in which the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time constitute the work. It can happen anywhere, at any time, or for any length of time. Performance art can be any situation that involves four basic elements: time, space, the performer’s body […]

List of Hollywood Agents and Talent Management

17 July, 2007 (14:29) | Entertainment and Media

The following is a list of talent agencies with offices in and around Los Angeles as they are listed on the Screen Actor’s Guild website. This list is accurate as of October 2006, but is subject to change due to the fact that agencies sometimes go out of business and frequently new ones open up. […]

About Comedy

13 May, 2007 (14:38) | Entertainment and Media

The word comedy has a classical meaning (comical theatre) and a popular one (the use of humor with an intent to provoke laughter in general).
In the theater, its Western origins are in ancient Greece tragedy, a genre characterised by a grave fall from grace by a protagonist having high social standing. Comedy, by contrast, portrays […]

The RULE OF THREE in Writing

5 April, 2007 (14:38) | Entertainment and Media

The rule of three is a principle in English writing that suggests that things that come in threes are inherently funnier, more satisfying, or more effective than other numbers of things. From slogans (”Go, fight, win!”) to films (The Godfather trilogy), many things are structured in threes. There were three musketeers, three little pigs, three […]

Types of Live Entertainment

14 February, 2007 (14:33) | Entertainment and Media

Types of live entertainment:
* Dance
* Drama
* Musical theatre
* Opera
* Performance art
* Magic
* Comedy
* Sports
* Concerts
Theater:
* Playwrights
* Actors
* Theater directors
Music industry:
* Composers and songwriters
* Singers and musicians
* Orchestras
* Concert halls and opera houses
The publishing industry:
* Authors
* Journalists
* Publishers
* Printers
* Booksellers
Exhibition entertainment:
* Museum
* Amusement park
* Trade show
* Wax museum
* Fair
* Themed retail
* Busking
The Present-Day mass media industry
* […]

List of Performance Artists

2 February, 2007 (14:36) | Entertainment and Media

A
* Alan Abel
* Marina Abramovic
* Vito Acconci
* damali ayo
* Laurie Anderson
* Ron Athey
B
* Franko B
* Troy Banarzi
* Joseph Beuys
* Nicole Blackman
* Black Sun Productions
* Mark Bloch
* Blue Man Group
* Kate Bornstein
* Leigh Bowery
* George Brecht
* Alexander Brener
* Stuart Brisley
* Robert Delford Brown
* Chris Burden
* Nao Bustamante
C
* (early period) Cabaret Voltaire
* Lisa Crystal Carver (Lisa Suckdog)
* […]

History of Sierra Entertainment

7 January, 2007 (14:29) | Entertainment and Media

History
1979–1983
The original On-Line Systems logo.
The history of Sierra Entertainment started back in 1979 in the home of Ken and Roberta Williams, an ordinary couple in their mid-20s, living in Simi Valley in the Greater Los Angeles area with their two young sons D.J. and Chris.
At the time, Ken was working as a contract programmer for […]

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