Creating a little theater of the mind

Here’s a chance to get inside the head of an avant-garde theater creator: Richard Foreman has started blogging. https://www.wakeupmrsleepy.blogspot.com/

Aficionados of John Adams will have to wait till mid-November to fully savor “A Flowering Tree,” which will receive its world premiere in Austria as part of the Vienna New Crowned Hope festival. But for those who’d like a preview, the composer’s website, www.earbox.com, offers not only a synopsis of the opera but a sound clip.

Lee Rosenbaum -- also known as CultureGrrl -- has discovered former Getty Trustee Barbara Fleischman’s ventures into academia and her reasons for it: https://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl/2006/10/barbara_fleishmans_new _cultura.html