Tag: 01.18.00

• Livent showman Garth Drabinsky was a spinner of dreams and high ambition. Among them was Chicago’s Oriental Theater, which he said would be the centerpiece of a North American empire of theaters to create and house new touring productions. The City of Chicago invested $13 million in the Oriental, but since Drabinsky crashed and burned, there’s little going on there. Is there a market to keep the place lit? – Chicago Tribune

What happens when a theater company’s artistic director, its life’s force, leaves – but the money supporting the theater stays? In the case of one Scottish theater, it drifts on for a couple of seasons, then folds. Maybe National Arts Council policies expect too much in the way of numbers and not enough in the way of art? – The Herald (Scotland)