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Notes from Arden
Swimming Through a Tsunami
These honors recognize how individual artists and productions were affectionately remembered by individuals belonging to our team of generationally, ethnically and gender-diverse writers.
Featured Column
Pauline García Viardo: “The Mother of European Culture”
This coming Friday, March 3, one such treasure will emerge from the vault for its first professional production at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, over 150 years after it was first created in 1867
Got It Covered
“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.”
Ask Corbett
Ask Corbett: To Be Or Not to Be? (a Non-Profit Arts Org)
“Here are the stats: In 2015 charitable giving the in U.S. totaled $373 billion. Individuals made the majority of charitable gifts totaling $299 billion (80%). Foundations gave only a total of $59 billion in grants or 15% of all charitable giving. (Corporations gave the remaining 5 %.) Given these shocking statistics, I would encourage everyone to re-focus fundraising efforts on the individual donor – more on that in another post – and move away from the idea that you will be able to totally support your organization – or project – through grants.” — BY CORBETT BARKLIE
Ask Corbett a Question!
Have a question about Los Angeles theater and don’t know who to ask? We are now accepting submissions for an upcoming new section aimed to answer you most burning theater-related questions.
Around Town
“The pandemic has affected everyone,” says Grossman without hesitation. “I don’t think any company or business is the same. And we gotta find a whole new model in order to work in our industry… The idea of small companies, small 99-seat theater companies surviving in this climate, it’s going to be very difficult.”
The Summer of our (Dis)Content
Our Town
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Decidedly Delin
The Sounds of Silence
“Institutions love silence. Silence accelerates forgetting.” — Kevin Delin