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The more nervous producers, the more Broadway will turn into a land of stasis and the more important off-Broadway and off-off-Broadway will become for people who like to see new works.
At this difficult time when so many orchestras are facing economic turmoil, the Kansas City Symphony is balancing its budget and just signed a three year contract with its musicians.
"Let it be" are the words of wisdom that part of me whispers to myself while contemplating the newest Beatles tribute concert to reach Broadway, which in fact calls itself Let It B…
Two-thirds of the way through I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road--revived for the Encores! Off-Center
Two-thirds of the way through I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It on the Road--revived for the Encores! Off-Center series...
On behalf of Let It Be, described as "a celebration of the music of the Beatles," I don't have much to say. Why would I? I'm a longtime, dyed-in-the-vinyl Beatles fan.
Can it be that one of the funniest and one of the most anarchic comic writers of the 20th century, a true member of the exclusive Sui Generis Club, is already forgotten? Not at the Westport …
They all agreed that the most important thing they learned at the Kennedy Center was courage, the courage to ask for money, the courage to embrace a new funding paradigm, the courage to do s…
Nobody Loves You is the title of both the show and the TV show-within-the-show. Attractive singles seek to pair up as the audience watches, in weekly installments.
So extraordinarily good was the one-night Encores! Off-Center staged concert reading of the Jeanine Tesori-Brian Crawley Violet, directed by Leigh Silverman, that it calls for some serious t…
Forever Tango is happily ensconced at the Walter Kerr, where it first landed in 1997 for an impressive 13-month run. The show returned in 2004 for four months at the Shubert, but this new e…
Arts institutions -- and all not for profit organizations for that matter -- must make it engaging, fun, enlightening and inspiring to participate. They must earn their donors.
To begin his Shun-kin note for the 2013 Lincoln Center Festival program, Complicite director Simon McBurney writes, "In...
The cast of the Encores! Off-Center concert production of Marc Blitzstein's once highly controversial first musical...
It would be a pleasure to report that what John Malkovich has come up with as part of the 2013 Lincoln Center Festival is a refreshing aperitif. It isn't.
On the Town with youthful high spirits from the music, empathy from the actors, and comedy firing on all cylinders. "New York, New York" in Pittsfield, well worth the trip up the …
I genuinely did not know what to expect going into The Explorers Club. What I saw was a madcap diversion -- a hilarious way to take your mind of your troubles (for a couple of hours at least…
As the pressures facing arts organizations increase, it has become more important than ever that the selection of a Chair of the Board be made with care.
An all-male boarding school serves as the starting point for Tarell Alvin McCraney's Choir Boy. During a school ceremony, tenor Pharus Jonathan Young is interrupted -- mid-solo -- by a homop…
Far From Heaven in light of the Supremes; changes for Vanya and Sonia and Natasha and Pierre
I have become increasingly convinced that special, targeted fundraising campaigns can be effective ways to galvanize board and staff and to ratchet up the level of fundraising.
Daniel Radcliffe is out to prove something, and he's doing a bang-up job of it. Set for life as the #1 Harry Potter alumnus,...
London--If you're a chocoholic like me, you're hoping Charlie and the Chocolate Factory will be as delectable as...
Once upon a time Joss Whedon wrote a TV show about a teenage girl who was basically Superman. Not a muscle-bound...
This past spring saw not one but four solo shows, three of them Broadway vehicles for major star ladies and one unassuming off-Broadway effort with a skinny guy you probably never heard off.
