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Notes from Arden
I’ll Be Damned! It’s Nimrod
The trap of political satire is that if it sinks to the level of the idiocy that it’s railing against, it fails to provide a beam or a beacon. It’s just more yelling.
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Playwrights’ Arena, The Broadwater and a Real Estate Dance, The Scenies and Sir Peter Hall Remembered
“Everyone in the town’s intimate theater scene should be delighted with this prospect of a small local theater’s well-deserved rise to mid-size, though the economics of all that will need to be massaged, and may even require several visits to a chiropractor after negotiating with the stage actors’ union. But if anyone can iron out the knots and aches of a mid-size frame, Rivera can. For years, he has been one of the town’s hardest working journeyman directors and opinion makers, and his new home base promises to become central to a bona fide neighborhood and its extended community that’s connected to the school.”
Got It Covered
“This is, obviously, quite bad news for the local theater scene and we will need to take some time to absorb just what all this means and how we will react to it. Already, we are seeing several Facebook posts from Equity actors who are vowing to go rogue and act secretly (and, yes, illegally) on 99 seat stages. Others are seriously discussing the notion of going FiCore, a topic discussed at length in journalist Myron Meisel’s excellent earlier Stage Raw article.” –BY PAUL BIRCHALL
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Around Town
“Maybe it sounds a little Pollyannish,” Sandee says, “but our approach is that in these challenges – and sometimes they’re kind of overwhelming – we are always looking for where the gift in it is.”
The Summer of our (Dis)Content
Our Town
Funding Arts Journalism: Stage Raw’s Second Symposium on Arts Coverage
On Friday, ESPN announced the dismantling of its popular sports and culture site “Grantland,” eliciting shock and disappointment on the web. The move comes a few weeks after ESPN cut 300 jobs, reportedly to make up lost cable subscription revenue. It is, unfortunately, only the latest sobering development to challenge the financial viability of arts coverage. BY JENNY LOWER.