Monday, May 25, 2015
The content below is from Americans for the Arts' Arts Watch email blast of Dec. 8, 2010. (Subscribe to it here.) Expressions, opinions and/or comments in italics following each story highli…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMThe list of widely recognized arts advocacy organizations in New York includes, but may not be limited to, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York City Arts Coalition, Volunteer Lawyers f…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMThe last mention of the Provincetown Playhouse on this site was June 9, 2010. Not that the saga surrounding the storied, iconic Greenwich Village theater, owned by New York University's Sch…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMWith Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark postponing tonight's performance, and with my new think piece for the Huffington Post waiting for approval, I've pretty much had enough of wall-to-wall Spi…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMGetting out in front of the Spider-Man story? Not likely. One shouldn't even bother to try. This thing has become the monster tsunami of Broadway, unfortunately, and it's sweeping everything…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMAnd now for some non-Spider-Man news: Alliance for the Arts has launched a new iPhone and iTouch app that allows users to discover the whole breadth of cultural events taking place in their …
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMIt all started four months ago. As some (or many or a few) of you know, I directed a production in the 2010 New York International Fringe Festival and it was a mixed experience by half. That…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMSix months after all 12 Manhattan community boards approved a resolution calling on New York City and New York State to legislate a property-tax abatement for landlords who rent to nonprofit…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMAs a former first-string critic and current Drama Desk member, the protocol breach represents an important opportunity to review how utterly outmoded the protocol really is.
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 05:58PMBelow you will find my latest essay for the Huffington Post.It was written (last weekend, I should note) in reaction to the debate over theater critics "pre-reviewing" Spider-Man: Turn Off t…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMLord, have mercy, here we go again.In the good name of stopping the spread of hate, someone is spreading a bad disease called censorship.As if our cherished First Amendment wasn't facing eno…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMThe content below is from Americans for the Arts' Arts Watch email blast of Dec. 15, 2010. (Subscribe to it here.) Expressions, opinions and/or comments in italics following each story highl…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMYes, you're right, so don't say it. That fine blogger Chloe Veltman wrote an insightful piece last week on what it means to be an ethical cultural journalist in the era of the "journalist en…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMCan I have a moment of your time? I know there's tons of content here at the Clyde Fitch Report and much of it, if I may say so, is compelling stuff: concerns about plays by Pulitzer Prize-w…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMNot being a producer -- but having produced theater during a past life -- sometimes I like to read and then not comment on all the blog posts about event ticketing and pricing. From my lay v…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMIn the first two installments of the CFR's chapter-by-chapter coverage of the anthology 20Under40: Re-Inventing the Arts and Arts Education for the 21st Century, I engaged in a spirited dial…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMTwo years ago, in the heady time following Barack Obama's election, I was asked to join a post-show panel coinciding with the Off-Broadway run of Keith Reddin and Meg Gibson's play Too Much …
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMI am honored to announce that the Goodman Theatre in Chicago selected me to moderate a panel there on Sun., Jan. 23, at 5:30pm.If you're in Chicago, the event is free and I'd love for you to…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMThe executive director of the American Theatre Wing, Howard Sherman, has made public a strong, impassioned and well-worded letter to the members of the board of education of Waterbury, Conne…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMThe content below is from Americans for the Arts' Arts Watch email blast of Jan. 5, 2011. (Subscribe to it here.) Expressions, opinions and/or comments in italics following each story highli…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMToday's big, but not surprising news:The GOP majority in the House of Representative proposes to abolish the National Endowment for the Arts. Read the story in US News and World Report.Also …
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMIn the first three installments of the CFR's chapter-by-chapter coverage of the new anthology 20Under40: Re-Inventing the Arts and Arts Education for the 21st Century, I:engaged in a spirite…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMIt has been a beautiful month thus far here in Clyde Fitch Report-land, weather notwithstanding, for reasons I can't make public quite yet but for which I'm deeply happy. Beautiful is infini…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMWhen you have a set of circumstances out of one's control -- say, for example, an editor who gives out an assignment then promptly decides she hadn't given out the assignment, like she's liv…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMI've been having a great time working with the New York International Fringe Festival -- especially Producing Artistic Director Elena K. Holy and SMAC (or Social Media and Community) guru Be…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMWell, it happened.According to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, linking to a story in the Kansas City Star, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback abolished the Kansas Arts Commission by executive orde…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMIf you ask me (which no one is), the jury is out as to whether "increasing capacity" -- meaning building more spaces for arts organization to do their work -- is the best thing when real est…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMThe content below is from Americans for the Arts' Arts Watch email blasts of Feb. 2 and Feb. 9, 2011. (Subscribe to it here.) Expressions, opinions and/or comments in italics following each…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMLook at the hundreds of thousands of people celebrating in Tahrir Square. Yes, there was violence a week ago, yes, it was regrettable. Actually, regrettable is a regrettable, distancing word…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMRocco Landesman is right.I've waited to write that sentence for several weeks now and I appreciate the emails asking if the CFR would opine on the comments of the chairman of the National En…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMIt'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…
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