https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/03\/16\/opinion\/sunday\/the-rise-of-anti-capitalism.html?_r=0<\/a>, the core of the crisis lies in \u201ccompetitive markets bringing costs so far down that many goods and services are becoming nearly free, abundant, and no longer subject to market forces.\u201d<\/p>\nWelcome to the world of arts journalism.<\/p>\n
Competitive capitalism isn\u2019t going away anytime soon, Rifkin suggests, but a new anti-Capitalism paradigm \u2013 a non-competitive, inclusive, collaborative, non-profit model \u2013 is rising of necessity. Without it, he claims, we won\u2019t have, as professions, schools that actually work, nor hospitals that function humanely, nor care of the elderly, nor the arts, nor arts journalism \u2013 all of which are so vital to a civilized society. And if you believe that the non-profit model can\u2019t sustain itself, that it\u2019s a parasite sucking the blood out of government and donors, Rifkin’s article provides data from around the world that suggests otherwise.<\/p>\n
\u201cA recent study revealed that approximately 50 percent of the aggregate revenue of the nonprofit sectors of 34 countries comes from fees, while government support accounts for 36 percent of the revenues and private philanthropy for 14 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n
Perhaps you\u2019ll indulge my fantasy that Stage Raw<\/em>, as an embryonic non-profit digital arts journalism platform, is part of a rising tide, serving the denizens of Arden who\u2019ve been so rudely abandoned by the court.<\/p>\nThis week’s launch is Stage Raw<\/em> taking its first baby steps. We expect to get scraped on a few twigs, stumble, and even bruise ourselves. Please be patient with us: we\u2019re just learning how to walk.<\/p>\nIn addition to the kinds of theater columns you\u2019re seeing on the site, we aim to expand into dance, music and the visual arts, weather permitting.<\/p>\n
This launch edition is largely dedicated to honoring Los Angeles as a destination,<\/em> rather than as a pit stop. Hence, in the Features section, a compendium of “most memorable moments in L.A. theater” contributed in a two-part column, “Our Town.” The first installment features stories by Rob Weinert-Kendt, Ron Sossi, Jeanie Hackett and French Stewart, with reflections on the past and prospects for the future. (Next week, we’ll be hearing from John Pollono, Cathy Carlton, John Achorn, Jamie Andrews and Rhonda Aldrich.) In a similar vein, critic-playwright-director-producer Neal Weaver reflects on 60 years working in the theater (“Flight of the Bumblebee”), why he left New York in the 1980s, and what he found when he arrived in L.A.\u00a0\u00a0 Meanwhile the irrepressible Bill Raden has an about-town column (“Stage Rows”) reporting on breaking and broken events in our community, following our theater-makers out of their shows and to their parties. Inquiring minds . . .<\/p>\nAlso on Stage Raw\u2019s<\/em> agenda are all manner of interactive frolics, a film documentary series on arts institutions that have provided Southern California with a sense of place (we\u2019ll start with Pasadena Playhouse),\u00a0 and an international new play exchange through video-streaming. Pier Carlo Talenti, literary manager for Center Theatre Group, has agreed to help on the L.A. front; Joanna Klass\u00a0 of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute is reaching out to theaters in Warsaw and Kiev; John Freedman, theater critic for the Moscow Times<\/i>, is shepherding theaters in Russia. Later this week Stage Raw<\/em> will be meeting with the Royal Court and Young Vic theatres in London, and next week with Th\u00e9\u00e2tre Nanterre-Amandiers outside Paris. We\u2019ll report back soon with news of who wants to play.<\/p>\nWe\u00a0expect that\u00a0this is just the beginning of many exciting things to come.<\/p>\n
So many people to thank – where to begin? David Elzer and Michael Seel, who jumped in to help when I first raised the SOS after theater coverage cutbacks at the LA Weekly<\/i>. Thanks to Philip Brandes, Cindy Marie Jenkins, Bill Raden, Mindy Farabee and Doug Clayton for their invaluable counsel. Thanks to Chelsea Sutton for her generous help. Thanks to our distinguished Advisory Board: Olga Garay-English, publisher Martha D. Ludlum, Alan Mandell, Luis Reyes, Travis Preston and Michael Seel. Thanks to our marketing\/advertising director Shelley Leopold, who said \u201cyes\u201d when we asked, sight and site unseen. Thanks to designer\/web-developer Ryan Colditz, doing our thing from Sacramento and burning up the midnight oil. Thanks to our team of writers, working for a pittance.\u00a0 Thanks to the Pasadena Arts Council for agreeing to be our fiscal sponsor.<\/p>\n
And finally, thanks to the many people who put their money where our mouth was, and is. It is only because of you that we are here. Thank you for the trust you are placing in us. You have our promise that\u00a0everything we’re doing each and every day is all about\u00a0living up to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So, the Forest of Arden in As You Like It is the place where the ex-pats gather, those either cast out from the pomp of court, or self-exiled. If you\u2019re in the arts, if you love the arts, welcome to Arden.<\/p>\n
To quote Duke Senior, his dukedom stolen by his brother:<\/p>\n
\u201cSweet are the uses of adversity
\nWhich, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
\nWears yet a precious jewel in his head;
\nAnd this our life, exempt from public haunt,
\nFinds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
\nSermons in stones, and good in everything.<\/p>\n
I would not change it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2824,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_custom_body_class":"","_custom_post_class":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notes-from-arden-steven-leigh-morris","entry","has-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stageraw.com\/oldStageRaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stageraw.com\/oldStageRaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stageraw.com\/oldStageRaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stageraw.com\/oldStageRaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stageraw.com\/oldStageRaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2392"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/stageraw.com\/oldStageRaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2851,"href":"https:\/\/stageraw.com\/oldStageRaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2392\/revisions\/2851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stageraw.com\/oldStageRaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stageraw.com\/oldStageRaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stageraw.com\/oldStageRaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stageraw.com\/oldStageRaw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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