Monday, May 25, 2015
It's a sweet idea and I'm certainly happy to promote it. Got essay? Sure you do. Start writing!Er, I mean, with all due respect, it is a little odd to limit the entrants to the contest to th…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMWithout a doubt, the resurrection of the Ohio Theatre is a very positive development for the Off- and Off-Off-Broadway community.And despite the fact that I denounced -- well, really, reprim…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMI will admit that I have watched The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. And I will admit that I grew to like those ladies, even if they didn't seem to like themselves roughly half of the time…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMLast Friday, I would venture a visual guess that 200, perhaps even 300 or more people attended the superb launch party for a new cultural policy think tank called the Institute for Culture i…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMThe following excerpted press release, below, is courtesy of publicist Dale Heller.It's certainly a swell and all-too-rare opportunity and I hope y'all will spread the word and that the fell…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMAh, Facebook. The town crier of the 21st century. Not to say that I'm addicted, obsessed or preoccupied -- sorry, Mark Zuckerberg -- but I noticed the other day that my friend and colleague,…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMPerception is everything, and I'm quite certain when blogger and arts analyst Diane Ragsdale gets to moderate the now-legendary and, yes, inspiring Q&A with Rocco Landesman, chair of the Nat…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMMore theaters, more deficits. Atlanta's distinguished Actor's Express, for example, needs $200,000 to survive, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.Seattle's Intiman Theatre, for an…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMI will admit that I have watched The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. And I will admit that I grew to like those ladies, even if they didn't seem to like themselves roughly half of the time…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMThe CFR's Dec. 12 post on the social media presence of all 56 state arts agencies was a popular one, and feedback, nearly three months later, is still coming in.I therefore felt it might be …
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMI'd like to give a big shout-out to all of the many folks behind World Theatre Day, which is celebrated every year on March 27. If you'd like to learn more about World Theatre Day, I encoura…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMInterestingly, today the Huffington Post has informed me that they want to pass on Olbermann coverage.Fair enough, it's their site.But it's curious, given that Arianna just appeared with Olb…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMThere are times I don't post, and usually various reasons. Lately, the reason is because I fear there's far too much noise in the blogosphere, and I see less and less of a point of adding to…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMA big, steamy tempest in a gilded, pinky-raising teapot has been stirred up by playwright Joshua Conkel on the blog of the theater company Youngblood -- big enough, apparently, to be anointe…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMDavid Pincus, chair of the Theater Task Force at Manhattan Community Board 4 (among his many titles), will someday need to stand up and bask in the applause of the New York City arts infra…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMSaturday, March 14, 2015
Friday, November 21, 2014
"It takes a special person (or masochist) to self-select this job..."
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 08:37AMMonday, November 10, 2014
You heard about that auction where a Cezanne or a Picasso or a Klimt was auctioned off for hundreds of millions of dollars, and you think to yourself: How exciting would it have been to be t…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 06:52PMSaturday, June 28, 2014
Friday, June 22, 2012
The same irascible and infuriating CFR: the nexus of arts and politics.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 06:20PMMonday, March 28, 2011
Dear Readers:
On Jan. 11, 2011, I received an offer to become Director, Cultural Institutions Unit, at the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. I have accepted the offer. My first …
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 07:00AMSunday, March 27, 2011
I'm not an actor, heaven knows, but I did work as an editor and reporter at Back Stage, the trade publication and website for actors, for the better part of 10 years (freelance and full-time…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 03:00PMSaturday, March 26, 2011
I am really proud to recommend this new play by my dear friend, Donna Fiumano-Farley, to all of you.
I met Donna some years ago when we were in the master's theater program together at Hunt…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 11:00PMAnd dish on Chris Brown, Duran Duran, Lady Gaga, Rob Lowe, Taylor Swift and Justica Timberbiel
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 06:15AM"Daniel Radcliffe is to be honored by the Trevor Project for his work with the organization to prevent LGBTQ youth suicides."
That's great.
But I've had a nagging thought about this announ…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:45AMThe content below is from Americans for the Arts’ Arts Watch email blasts of March 2011 (subscribe to it here).
Expressions, opinions and/or comments in italics following each story hig…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:30AMEmbodying a cinematic style of "shadowy expressiveness."
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 04:30AMSaturday, March 12, 2011
The privileged often do excellent work. It's easier when you're not working to pay your bills.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 10:01PMAll these orgs support a proposal for a property tax abatement for NYC nonprofit performing arts.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 12:37PM 
