Do I Hear a Waltz?
Time to call a truce between the “musical” and “nonmusical” theatre.
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Time to call a truce between the “musical” and “nonmusical” theatre.
Facing a new millennium with some old familiar challenges, it’s time for new approaches.
Facing economic contraction and an ascendant conservatism, the task for the American theatre must be to energize the young and rethink the nonprofit model.
The arts should run counter to a mood of national apathy, not acquiesce to or accommodate it.
Can challenging work survive in an age of impulse buying? Ambitious new plays may provide the answer.
Compounding tensions caused by the growing lack of financial resources threaten the ecology of the theatre.
Among the most striking changes in funding for theatre: the growth of corporate support.
Oh, the humanities!
The most pressing issue confronting the American theatre today is the relationship between the institutions and the artists that develop the work.
It will take more than money for U.S. theatres to function as companies and maintain repertoire, but money is certainly a start.