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The NEA says there are more theaters, but fewer theater-goers, though raising ticket prices wouldn't hurt attendance (and therefore total income), much. Huh??
Theatre Command Group thinks the "zoo" needs a new model of zoo-keeping. Guess that makes the artists....?

Meantime, a closure.
The Zipper Factory Closes - NYTimes.com

And a revelation:
Joe Dowling at the Guthrie made more than Obama will:

Should artistic directors be paid more? | Stage | guardian.co.uk
...and the virtual economy
marches on... The Great Internet Free-For-All

Related?: the absence of artist's voices in theater admin, the closing of a practically for-profit (?) smallish off-off B'way venue, a really big regional non-profit CEO salary, and the new "free" economic model of the Internet...

Sure, we need new ways of funding (and organizing!) theater and finding community, the recent closing of several Broadway shows notwithstanding

But would Obama change anything for on the ground?

asks: An Arts Czar? While we ponder,

here's a sympathetic semi-slam of America (where I got some links-thanks!).

I can't help thinking that the real subtext of all the chatter is the pursuit of status through the flow of dollars, no matter how many or few.

Since that's not gonna change, some mistakenly blog-o-grieve the loss of a nostalgic ideal.

Get out much?

So, until your next theater outing, ('cuz sometimes other things are more important)...



we should talk about what's really happening...
in the room... (no link!)