Oprah Headed Toward Broadway Debut

“‘I have a stack of plays in my bag right now that I am reading,’ Winfrey said with great enthusiasm and determination last week … ‘And just this past weekend, I was in New York meeting with producers. We were just talking about what would be the best route to take. But yes, this is really going to happen. … Life is too short’.”

The Arguments Against Government Arts Subsidies

“But in a time of economic stringency, it is too much to expect a state that must provide hospital beds, school places, police and soldiers to pay for dance ensembles, theatre groups and ‘community projects’,” write Simon Heffer. What’s more, he says, “[too] many second-rate ‘artists’ – be they screenwriters, directors, choreographers, ‘installation artists’ or composers – were enabled to make a living purely because the state chose to subsidise their profoundly second-rate outpourings.”