Who wouldn't have liked Meredith Willson (1902-84)? Two of his autobiographical volumes, And There I Stood With My Piccolo (1948) and "But He Doesn't Know the Territory" (1959), long out of …
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PM[SHARE]The content below is from Americans for the Arts' Arts Watch email blast of Oct. 26, 2010. (Subscribe to it here.) Expressions, opinions and/or comments in italics following each story highl…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PM[SHARE]To say that we live in the age of the derivative is to be redundant: I don't think anyone really knows what constitutes original reporting anymore. True, if you're the first to report someth…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PM[SHARE]The letter below this commentary announces the legal dissolution of the Alliance of New York State Arts Organizations, better known as NYS Arts. The announcement was the furthest thing from …
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PM[SHARE]Happy Election Day. Sit down. Read this.We know that on the list of reasons why people vote for certain candidates, positions on the arts do not rank very high.If, however, you're one of the…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PM[SHARE]Two more stories for AOL's recently launched City's Best. The first one is on the Off-Off-Broadway revival of Manson: The Musical: If anything can be a musical ("The Origin of Species" anyon…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PM[SHARE]Two new stories for AOL's recently launched City's Best. The first one is on the Broadway revival of Alfred Uhry's Driving Miss Daisy, starring Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones:Daisy We…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PM[SHARE]Anyone have more information on the Bucks County Playhouse possibly heading for the auction block?The story, which you can read in full by clicking on the link above, comes from the Bucks Lo…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PM[SHARE]Each week, the CFR publishes a condensed, best-of-the-best version of The Brown Tweed Society's acclaimed Entertation Index.It compiles the best dish, gossip and celebrity news filtered via …
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PM[SHARE]You won't be happy with what I'm writing in this post.Even before the Republican Party takes over the House of Representatives with their biggest majority since Herbert Hoover's shirt collar…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PM[SHARE]I'd like to make an observation. It concerns the Broadway musical The Scottsboro Boys tangentially but critically. I ask that you tolerate my brief digression, for I promise to return to the…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PM[SHARE]What a distinctly noble idea:...
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PM[SHARE]Is there gonna be a rumble tonight?There might be.Or at least some eye-scratching and caterwauling.According to a quickly-going-viral post by playwright Michael Lew (found on the blog of t...
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PM[SHARE]We all remember UNICO National, the Italian-American service organization that tried, unsuccessfully, to get Jersey Shore taken off the air last year.Now they're fuming that a new reality sh…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PM[SHARE]This press release comes courtesy of the MetLife Foundation and LINC...LINC and MetLife Foundationannounce a total of $100,000in unrestricted funds nationwideto six outstanding artist spac...
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PM[SHARE]Are the Brits actually carping and wingeing about having to fill out applications in order to receive their public appropriations?Dear God in the Heaven of Severe Austerity, that's exactly w…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PM[SHARE]It was an intense, productive week here in the land of here-today, gone-tomorrow revenue (that's code for freelance work), so this post will be the first in a series designed to do an avalan…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PM[SHARE]Two more features for AOL's recently launched City's Best.The first feature is on my personal hero, Pee-Wee Herman, and The Pee-Wee Herman Show, now on Broadway .Here is an excerpt:Exper...
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PM[SHARE]Two more features for AOL's recently launched City's Best.The first feature is a short Q&A with playwright Adam Rapp on the occasion of his new play, Ghosts in the Cottonwoods.Here is ...
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PM[SHARE]The content below is from Americans for the Arts' Arts Watch email blast of Nov. 10, 2010. (Subscribe to it here.) Expressions, opinions and/or comments in italics following each story highl…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PM[SHARE]Fair or otherwise, theater directors, like actors and writers, are frequently typecast in the minds of actors and writers, not to mention producers and occasionally audiences, all of whom ma…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PM[SHARE]No more federal tax deductions for mortgage interest?No more federal tax deductions for charitable contributions?Should the federal government instead provide a 15 percent tax credit for cha…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PM[SHARE]Does theater matter? The answers seems a given, no? Of course theater matters. All arts matter. All creativity matters. And, yes, everyone is creative -- not just the artist at the cliched c…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PM[SHARE]Before I type, write, think or shed another word, I have to apologize to playwright Susan Yankowitz. Let me explain.[caption id="attachment_9036" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Photo…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PM[SHARE]Courtesy of my friend Tom Berger comes the following announcement. (What rock are you living under if you don't know Tom? Click here, peeps.)We're big fans of all things Berger-y and (re:) D…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PM[SHARE]The story is several weeks old now, and the ritualistic ringing of the alarm has ebbed into a hum of mere worry. Yet I wanted to add some reactions and observations to the coverage of the fi…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PM[SHARE]Special to The Clyde Fitch ReportTheLorgnette@gmail.comRight now, James Franco is the most interesting person in America who is famous for not very interesting things. Sure, he's also famo...
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PM[SHARE]Mr. Jacobs: Good morning, boys and girls.Class: Good morning, Mr. Jacobs.Mr. Jacobs: Very nice. Billy, fix your tie. Much better. Today, boys and girls, in Remedial Arts Criticism class, we'…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PM[SHARE]You can't say you weren't warned.Explicitly and often during 2009 and 2010, I warned here at the CFR that the culture wars would return. And they are.On Feb. 7, 2009, I wrote a post called T…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PM[SHARE]If you haven't joined the League of Independent Theater -- you're thinking about it, you've heard they're doing stuff but you're not totally sure what, you've hearing rumors, you're living u…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PM[SHARE]The content below is from Americans for the Arts' Arts Watch email blast of Dec. 8, 2010. (Subscribe to it here.) Expressions, opinions and/or comments in italics following each story highli…
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