Arts Advocacy Update 158: Texas Tortures Tinseltown by Leonard Jacobs

The 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…

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While We’re Discussing Ethics in Cultural Journalism… by Leonard Jacobs

Yes, 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…

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Give Me a Lift! Thoughts on Plastic Surgery Apps by Leonard Jacobs

Can 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…

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The Social Media Presence of All 56 State Arts Agencies (Updated) by Leonard Jacobs

The 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 …

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5 Questions I’ve Never Been Asked: William M. Hoffman by Leonard Jacobs

The playwright William M. Hoffman's As Is remains an iconic example of 1980s drama, written in the withering heat of the AIDS crisis (well, the first wave, anyway). After an Off-Broadway run…

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Arts Advocacy Update 151: My Old Kentucky Arts Home by Leonard Jacobs

The content below is from Americans for the Arts' Arts Watch email blast of Oct. 19, 2010. (Subscribe to it here.)The expressions, opinions and/or comments in italics following each story hi…

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‘A Broadway Celebration’ (in the East Room of the White House) by Leonard Jacobs

Who'd pass it up? Only the most radical of the radical-right, I guess, as only they would presumably consider the arts as threatening to their worldview.For the rest of us, meanwhile, it's i…

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Look at That New Theater at the South Street Seaport! by Leonard Jacobs

Ah, 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,…

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Diane Ragsdale and the “Cultural Leadership” Imperative by Leonard Jacobs

Perception 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…

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Fierce! Audiences, Critics & Controversial Art: Moderating a Panel, 1/23, in Chicago by Leonard Jacobs

I 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…

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Two Deficit-Riddled Theaters Issuing SOS Calls (Plus Other Stuff) by Leonard Jacobs

More 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…

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Happy Wedding, Kelsey. Oy. by Leonard Jacobs

I 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…

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ATW’s Howard Sherman Asks for Cessation of Censorship of August Wilson Play by Leonard Jacobs

The 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…

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Open Letter to Keith Olbermann: Cover the Creative Economy by Leonard Jacobs

Interestingly, 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…

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Richard Kessler’s “Death Panels”: Wrong Words on Arts Education Funding by Leonard Jacobs

There 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…

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No Play (by a Woman) Good Enough for 2010 Wasserstein Prize by Leonard Jacobs

Is there gonna be a rumble tonight?There might be.Or at least some eye-scratching and caterwauling.According to a quickly-going-viral post by playwright Michael Lew (found on the blog of t...

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LINC, Ford Foundation Unveil $1M in ‘Space for Change’ Grants by Leonard Jacobs

If 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…

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Business Models for the Arts and the Whole New Awakening by Leonard Jacobs

It 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…

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Ready to Kiss Charitable Deductions Goodbye? by Leonard Jacobs

No more federal tax deductions for mortgage interest?No more federal tax deductions for charitable contributions?Should the federal government instead provide a 15 percent tax credit for cha…

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Stage Matters in TCG Video — But Optics Matter, Too by Leonard Jacobs

Does theater matter? The answers seems a given, no? Of course theater matters. All arts matter. All creativity matters. And, yes, everyone is creative -- not just the artist at the cliched c…

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Queens Theatre in the Park Ribbon-Cutting Set for Thurs., Sept. 23 by Leonard Jacobs

Queens Theatre in the Park -- one of the 33 members of the city's key Cultural Institutions Group -- will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Thurs., Sept. 23, 6:30pm, in celebration of the sp…

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Hey, Philadelphia! Leave Those Critics Alone! by Leonard Jacobs

OMG, as the cast of Glee might say. Although I'm using the acronym somewhat acrimoniously. Will theater artists stop attacking a certain theater critic -- my friend Wendy Rosenfield -- in Ph…

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O’Neill: ‘Open Submissions’ for 2011 Playwrights Confab by Leonard Jacobs

The Eugene O'Neill Theater Center is putting out the word that open submissions are being accepted for the 2011 Playwrights Conference. We here at the CFR are happy, of course, to help sprea…

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Arts Advocacy Update 147: Pennsylvania’s Noble Knight by Leonard Jacobs

The content below is from Americans for the Arts' Arts Watch email blast of Sept. 15, 2010. (Subscribe to it here.)The expressions, opinions and/or comments in italics following each story h…

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Entertation Index, Sept. 12-18: Susan Boyle Simmers by Leonard Jacobs

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 contributors. Each week, the CFR will publish a co…

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