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While not every child today has the opportunity to dance, act, sing or play an instrument, there will always be a group of extraordinary people who have a need to express themselves and the …
Quiz time for all you musical theater fans: what is the name of the American musical inspired by two completely naked and totally threatening Japanese gangsters, or yakuza, covered from head…
As country after country announces substantial cuts in government arts funding -- and the economic challenges the EU is now facing should only hasten this trend there -- the need to develop …
It makes no sense to me that the arts are not embraced more emphatically by politicians these days.
I...
Last night the Kennedy Center production of Follies closed on Broadway. Follies, a musical by James Goldman and...
I spend a great deal of time writing about the imperative for arts organizations to focus on revenue. Adding revenue allows...
Every once in a small while we see an actor create a role so pitch-perfect, so damn real, that we just sit back and file that performance under the category of "F#$%ing Genius." We know in o…
I have written before of the work my colleague, Brett Egan, and I are doing in Muscat, Oman where we are helping manage...
Arts management is still a very young field. Thirty years ago there were very few professional arts managers,...
The holiday season is a time for giving and getting gifts. This is what I would like to receive this year:
1. An online 'fact...
For these characters -- and the show in general -- there's usually more than meets the eye.
Watching this week's episode of "Glee" and seeing its rendition of the classic '80s charity song, "Do They Know It's Christmas," brought to mind the debacle that was Bob …
The talk is that gay audiences support two subjects only: the big Ds, Death and Divas, not the little ds, domestic or daily.
On the one hand, I can't wait to hear the cast album that will accompany the revival of Alan Jay Lerner and Burton Lane's 1965 On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, since, apart from the glori…
People who think the arts ecology will return to what it was when the recession finally ends are setting themselves up for major disappointment. Those who do not prepare for a new world orde…
Recently, I took my nephew to his first Broadway show. This straight 19-year-old experienced the magic of live theater watching witches and monkeys fly in the long-running production Wicked.
Anyone who knows me knows I plan everything. Everything. I don't like surprise parties. I don't like to be asked to...
For the cast of the glorious Kaufman & Hart 1939 comedy The Man Who Came To Dinner, words are currency. In this fast, fizzy production at Theatre at St. Clement's, Sheridan Whiteside (Jim Br…
I am always amused (disturbed?) when someone attached to a not-for-profit arts organization (usually a board or staff...
Michael's post is a must read for everyone who is serious about the future of the arts in this country. Since the time of Plato, informed, expert criticism has paralleled the developing hist…
People spend a lot of money to buy Broadway show tickets. Part of me understands audience members thinking that price of admission allows them to behave as they want. The much larger part of…
This is the time of year when we give thanks for the wonderful gifts that we have been given, the experiences we have treasured, the people who have changed our lives.
Review of Bring It On in LA
One of the substantial changes in the arts environment that has happened with astonishing speed is that arts criticism has become a participatory activity rather than a spectator sport.
The National Alliance for Musical Theatre has always been about giving shows that haven't had a big shot, a shot. That is why I was a little surprised to find Bloodsong of Love on this year'…
