Controversial show Brooklyn Museum show was largely financed by those who stood to gain from promoting artists in the show. New York Times
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BOCELLI DEBUT DUD
Tenor Andrea Bocelli made his North American opera debut with “Werther” in Detroit this weekend. One critic calls the performance brave and given with charm, but his untrained voice was “inadequate and ultimately boring.” – Detroit News
(AND: Other reviews – New York Times, Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune)
THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN THEATER
Earlier this month playwrights John Guare, Terrence McNally, Lanford Wilson, Paula Vogel, Jon Robin Baitz, Wendy Kesselman, August Wilson, A.R Gurney and Christopher Durang got together to talk about the biz. New York Times
SECTION BY SECTION, musician by musician
The Chicago Symphony deconstructed. – Chicago Tribune
CHASING AFTER YOUTH
As arts groups chase after the youth audience, Theatre Communications Group director Ben Cameron suggests theater needs to reinvent the linear narrative. Chicago Tribune