On New York City's stages, summer festivals are hot

The city used to have a promotional slogan around this time of year. It bragged "New York Is a Summer Festival." This was considered absurd on at least two levels. First was the timing. It came out during John Lindsay's administration in the mid-'60s, when everyone knew that long, hot, violent summers were likely to be anything but festive.

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