Primrose Road

News to me, at least: there's a campaign to transform a fort on Governor's Island into the "New Globe for the New World", a project not authorized by the National Park Service (see the small print on the front page), but apparently supported by a handful of NYC politicians including Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton. The list of artists involved is fairly impressive -- it includes Mark Rylance (the director of that other Globe for almost a decade), Nicholas Hynter, Harold Prince, Ian McKellen, Al Pacino, Tom Stoppard, Susan Sarandon, F. Murray Abraham, and Kevin Kline -- so I'm wondering if this project will get off the ground.

It seems to be more of a "New York Globe" than a "New World Globe"; the casts of Sex and the City and all three Law and Orders are involved (they're always filming around town), along with a handful of NYC-based actors. I'm looking forward to seeing how this develops, though right now the New Globe Theater seems to consist of a few blueprints, a Second Life destination, and a bunch of fundraising events that are wayyyy outside this little grad student's income bracket.