In #SupplyDemand Theater Debate, Rocco Roughs Up the Righteous by Leonard Jacobs

Rocco 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 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Ensnaring Theatre Critics in the 'Spider-Man' Web by Leonard Jacobs

As 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.

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What’s the Secret Word, Dahling? Scream Real Loud! by Leonard Jacobs

Two more features for AOL's recently launched City's Best.The first feature is on my personal hero, Pee-Wee Herman, and The Pee-Wee Herman Show, now on Broadway .Here is an excerpt:Exper...

SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

A Chat With Adam Rapp and Those ‘Devil Boys From Beyond’ by Leonard Jacobs

Two more features for AOL's recently launched City's Best.The first feature is a short Q&A with playwright Adam Rapp on the occasion of his new play, Ghosts in the Cottonwoods.Here is ...

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Alliance for the Arts Launches Apps for NYC Culture by Leonard Jacobs

And 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 …

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Arts Advocacy Update 154: Bainbridge to Nowhere by Leonard Jacobs

The content below is from Americans for the Arts' Arts Watch email blast of Nov. 10, 2010. (Subscribe to it here.) Expressions, opinions and/or comments in italics following each story highl…

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The Most Interesting Person Famous for Uninteresting Things by Leonard Jacobs

Special to The Clyde Fitch [email protected] now, James Franco is the most interesting person in America who is famous for not very interesting things. Sure, he's also famo...

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5 Questions I’ve Never Been Asked: Trip Cullman by Leonard Jacobs

Fair or otherwise, theater directors, like actors and writers, are frequently typecast in the minds of actors and writers, not to mention producers and occasionally audiences, all of whom ma…

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La Petite Mort: Alastair Macaulay and the Death of Dance Criticism by Leonard Jacobs

Mr. Jacobs: Good morning, boys and girls.Class: Good morning, Mr. Jacobs.Mr. Jacobs: Very nice. Billy, fix your tie. Much better. Today, boys and girls, in Remedial Arts Criticism class, we'…

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The 20Under40 Interview Series, Part 3: David J. McGraw by Leonard Jacobs

In 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…

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‘My Big Friggin' Wedding'? Matzoh Luck! Ideas vs. VH1 Reality Shows by Leonard Jacobs

We all remember UNICO National, the Italian-American service organization that tried, unsuccessfully, to get Jersey Shore taken off the air last year.Now they're fuming that a new reality sh…

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Art Critic to The Nation! Film Critic to TNR! As for Theater, Quit Dreaming by Leonard Jacobs

Two 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 …

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Six Arts Groups Win Innovative Space Awards by Leonard Jacobs

This press release comes courtesy of the MetLife Foundation and LINC...LINC and MetLife Foundationannounce a total of $100,000in unrestricted funds nationwideto six outstanding artist spac...

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What’s a Funding Application? Oh, I Don’t Fill Those Out, Sorry! by Leonard Jacobs

Are the Brits actually carping and wingeing about having to fill out applications in order to receive their public appropriations?Dear God in the Heaven of Severe Austerity, that's exactly w…

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Didja Hear the One About the “Creative Economy”? Heh Heh by Leonard Jacobs

It was an intense, productive week here in the land of here-today, gone-tomorrow revenue (that's code for freelance work), so this post will be the first in a series designed to do an avalan…

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Arts Advocacy Update 161, 162: Connecticut Killing One Percent for Art? by Leonard Jacobs

The 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…

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Support the NEA! (With These Totally Lame Email Campaigns) by Leonard Jacobs

Look 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…

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For the Huffington Post: Will the Spider-Man Story Turn Off the Snark? by Leonard Jacobs

Getting 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…

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5 Questions I’ve Never Been Asked: Cara Reichel by Leonard Jacobs

The musical Once Upon a Time in New Jersey, by Susan DiLillo and Stephen Weiner, is described in press materials as an "Italian-American fairy tale set in 1956 Hoboken." It's a sincere, even…

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‘Better Left Unsaid’ Meets $20K Kickstarter Goal; Fall Production Moving Forward by Leonard Jacobs

Congratulations to producer Kathryn Velvel Jones (at left) and congratulations to writer Joey Brenneman -- her play, Better Left Unsaid, will be produced at a theater in New York City this N…

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The New York City Insider Guide for Tourists, by Mahmoud ‘Denny’ Ahmadinejad by Leonard Jacobs

By Stefanie SchappertSpecial to The Clyde Fitch [email protected] York City is known as the greatest city on earth. Millions of tourists descend on the city all ye...

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5 Questions I’ve Never Been Asked: Thaddeus Phillips by Leonard Jacobs

Talking about mourning in America: I don't think the creation of a sane, smart, America-first energy policy is going to happen. Certainly it won't happen in this political and economic clima…

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Arts Advocacy Update 149: Lost in Austin by Leonard Jacobs

The content below is from Americans for the Arts' Arts Watch email blast of Sept. 29, 2010. (Subscribe to it here.)The expressions, opinions and/or comments in italics following each story h…

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Entertation Index, Sept. 19-24: The $500,000 Dollar Man by Leonard Jacobs

"The Situation is bigger than Kim Kardashian."The Clyde Fitch Report is pleased to introduce and welcome The Brown Tweed Society, created by Matt Shorr and C.M. Tomlin, to its family of con…

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Arts Advocacy Update 148: The Garden State Grinch by Leonard Jacobs

The content below is from Americans for the Arts' Arts Watch email blast of Sept. 22, 2010. (Subscribe to it here.)The expressions, opinions and/or comments in italics following each story h…

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