NRC has for decades been the government's primary in-house performer of research in perceived areas of national need, including radio astronomy and agriculture.
Along with features on other opera houses, performers of past eras and festivals, it also publishes critiques of performances around the world by knowledgeable and respected reviewers.
Without a cadre of in-house performers, studios lurch from movie to movie, wasting enormous amounts of time and money assembling the talent for each new project.
With their bargain rates (a relative term), they tend to appeal to businesses seeking accommodations for midlevel employees or trainees, to cultural institutions housing performers and technical crews, to nonprofit organizations, to nurses temporarily deployed to city hospitals.
It said the BBC's best in-house performers including drama, natural history and some factual entertainment should switch to BBC Worldwide, but areas where BBC in-house "appears to be weak", such as entertainment, should be wound down, along with chunks of its factual department.
The RKO Keith's opened in 1928, and served partly as a vaudeville house for performers, including the Marx Brothers, Mae West, Bob Hope and Judy Garland.
Simon worked with architecture firm OMA to design the "inverted wells" that house her performers.
We're in a world of seedy boarding houses where performers can hardly afford to pay the rent.
With an ideal blend of beauty and functionality, the abbey supplies excellent conditions for music-making and even comfortable housing for performers, facilitated by an ongoing program of painstaking building renovation.
