Tony Stiffs Philo
The 2008 Tony Award nominations have been announced. The Farnsworth Invention is not on the list. Anywhere.
The 2008 Tony Award nominations have been announced. The Farnsworth Invention is not on the list. Anywhere.
In what some will no doubt regard as a precursor to the Tony Awards, The Farnsworth Invention has garnered a number of nominations for the Drama League Awards: Among new plays, “Eurydice” is the sole Off Broadway offering on a slate of nominees that includes new Pulitzer Prize winner “August: Osage County,” “The Farnsworth Invention,”
Or so one Farnsworth descendent would like to think: Philo is my great grandfather’s brother. Yeah! This is the statue of Philo T. Farnsworth at the Capital Building. Perhaps it’s possible that this claim to fame will have some effect on my children. For one, Philo was a very tall man (as you can see
The latest issue of WIRED magazine includes Philo Farnsworth’s potato field among the short list of notable locations that have inspired great leaps in technology: While plowing a field at age 14, Farnsworth — who had been studying electrons and vacuum tubes — looked out across the even furrows and was struck with an idea.
Here’s a blog post that seems to ask all the right questions: Who Invented the Television? Ask that question to anyone today and there is a good chance that you will be met with blank stares. Yet, ask people who invented the light bulb or the radio and the answers will come far more easily.
…somebody didn’t exactly enjoy their night at the theater: The Farnsworth Invention commits more than the mere mortal sin of being exposition heavy. It is almost emotionally fraudulent. When Sorkin wants you to feel a little something for one of the people in the piece, he throws in Cossack soldiers and dying children like he’s
I guess that’s that: The new Aaron Sorkin play The Farnsworth Invention, which explores the battle for the patent for the invention of television, will play its final performance at Broadway’s Music Box Theatre March 2.
Every now and then somebody else comes along who sees it pretty much the way I do: Quickly the story moves on to debates regarding the legal issues of patents and intellectual property rights, both important topics, but science is relegated to a secondary consideration. Bizarrely, though Farnsworth won his first courtroom patent battle with
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According to Variety, Broadway box-office grosses slip this time every year, but apparently "The Farnsworth Invention’s" box-office drop could be construed as more than just "seasonal." The seasonal slowdown on Broadway continued last week, with B.O. slipping by around $1.2 million to an estimated $14.3 million for 31 shows on the boards. Receipts dropped for
…who said "never let the facts get in the way of a good story" ? Case in point: Here’s an excerpt from an otherwise reasonably balanced appraisal of The Farnsworth Invention by By Walter S. Ciciora, Ph.D., a self-professed "Recognized Industry Expert on Cable and Consumer Electronics Issues" from the Feb 1, 2008 editio of