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In case you hadn’t seen the full text – Rocco Landesman’s speech to Grantmakers in the Arts – WE KNOW ARTS WORK

by Jodisc

  Rocco’s address last month at the Grantmakers in the Arts conference got a lot of attention.  Here is the entire text.  Good read. Thanks for reading! Jodi Post from: off-stage rightIn case y…

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at midnight (Broadway Time)

Gleason, Anderson, Powers, Stevens, Dykstra and More Set for TRU Love Benefit

Arts, Briefly: President's Arts Group Names 25 Members
Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

Arts, Briefly: Harlem Theater Founders to Resign
Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF

Dorothy Parker Evening, Wished on the Moon, Plays Don't Tell Mama Nov. 4

New York City Christmas, a Popular 2008 Benefit, Gets Album and Reunion Concert; Maroulis, Orfeh Are Special Guests

Public Theater Celebrates Contribution of Merle Debuskey, Its Founding Press Rep, Nov. 4

Mamet's A Life in the Theatre Opens at the Alliance Nov. 4

Dafoe Is Foreman's Idiot Savant, Opening Off-Broadway at the Public Theater Nov. 4

Today in Theatre History: NOVEMBER 4

Tony Bennett, Audra McDonald, Barbra Streisand Featured on The Dream's On Me CD

Original Cast Recording of Gregg Coffin's Five Course Love Now Available

Bonus Tracks Added to Sound of Music Cast Album for 50th Anniversary; NYC Event Will Reunite Cast

Arden, Pettiford, Cusson Will Sing in La Mirada Theatre's Upright Cabaret Series Nov. 8

Feldshuh, MacRae, Campbell, Shew, Stillman and More Cast in York Readings; Lunar Bin Bows Nov. 3

LAST CHANCE: Good Bobby and County of Kings

Roger Rees to Host Collegiate Chorale's A Jubilant Song

Northport theater to donate to local AIDS charities By STEVE PARKS

Second City 50th anniversary schedule

Stephen Colbert coming to Chicago for Second City anniversary

Second City confirms Carell, Colbert, Belushi, Wendt, Dratch, Garlin, Vardalos, many others by Chris Jones

Jim Belushi, Stephen Colbert, Andrea Martin, Martin Short, et al. Set for Second City 50th Anniversary

Ranking the Songs on the New Glee Soundtrack!

"Nashville" at the Metropolitan Room - Review by OSCAR E. MOORE

Daryl Glenn & Jo Lynn Burks - Great singing and a real down home, Grand Ole Opry, country party atmosphere.

Halloween Lives on in Americana Kamikaze and The New Electric Ballroom By Alexis Soloski

Jaglom's homage to theater has wide appeal By Iris Mann (Hollywood Reporter)

Cate Blanchett captures faded-flower essence in 'Streetcar' By Tim Smith

Made in Heaven
Review By SAM THIELMAN

Helmer Andrew Shaifer wrings a lot of laughs from the play's reheated "Will and Grace"-style gags, but ultimately, Bernzweig's biggest innovation is his surprisingly bleak denouement, which totally annuls the r…

Creature
Review By MARILYN STASIO

It's quite spooky and a little ooky, but "Creature" is no ordinary fright fest.

The Misunderstanding - Reviewed by KARL LEVETT

This earnest production of an interesting early work by Albert Camus is more debate than drama, with complex intellectual arguments triumphing over emotional involvement.

Subways Are for Sleeping - Reviewed by ERIK HAAGENSEN

Sometimes it's better to let sleeping flops lie.

I Got Sick Then I Got Better - Reviewed by ERIK HAAGENSEN

By the time this beguiling one-woman show about battling cancer is over, you feel as if writer-performer Jenny Allen is one of your best friends, and you want to call her up and make plans for Sunday brunch.

Theater Review | 'Love, Linda: The Life of Mrs. Cole Porter'
Hitching a Star to the Stardom of Cole Porter By DANIEL M. GOLD

"Love, Linda" is billed as a one-woman play. Really, though, it's cabaret.

Theater Review | 'Love Child'
Two Actors, Many Guises and a Skewed Greek Play By NEIL GENZLINGER

It's hard to imagine that Daniel Jenkins and Robert Stanton have ever had more fun than they're having in this delicious romp.

Seize the Day
Review By KAREN FRICKER

What begins as an entertaining and insightful look into the inner workings of the U.K.'s political establishment and its ethnic communities gets bogged down in overplotting and preachiness.

On the London Stage
Bedroom Distress, and Tragedy in Art and Life By MATT WOLF

Alan Ayckbourn's "Bedroom Farce" takes viewers on a delicious tour of upheaval; in "Prick Up Your Ears," drama strangely mirrors real-life tragedy.

Finian's Rainbow Retains Much Magic; Love Child Fields Frenzy; Redgrave Cries for Nightingale By Michael Feingold

Nightingale - Review by Matt Windman

On the whole, "Nightingale" is a fascinating and touching project that is driven by a sincere love for forgotten family.

Nightingale
Reviewedby:David Finkle

Lynn Redgrave's engaging and poignant solo piece looks at the life of her maternal grandmother.

Redgrave brings grandmother to life on stage BY ROBERT FELDBERG

Lynn Redgrave, who wrote and performs the solo piece, gives an old-fashioned bravura performance.

Victorian Secret By Scott Brown

Redgrave gives us more than mere confessional. She insists on making art.

Nightingale - Reviewed by ERIK HAAGENSEN

Thanks to the tremendous specificity and detail of Lynn Redgrave's writing and acting, "Nightingale" is a haunting elegy and a moving act of love.

Nightingale
Review by Matthew Murray

Considering the notebook placed on the desk that Redgrave constantly refers to, it's not even clear the evening is wholly memorized. But it's transfixing and transporting just the same.

Lynn Redgrave's loss is audience's gain in 'Nightingale' By LINDA WINER

"Nightingale" is an imaginative, compelling, cannily constructed 85 minutes about far more than we think we already know about Lynn Redgrave's losses.

Nightingale
Review By MARILYN STASIO

Lynn Redgrave holds us in the palm of her hand in this one-woman play about her family.

Lynn Redgrave's 'Nightingale,' a memorial to her famous family's matriarch by Joe Dziemianowicz (*** 1/2)

Ill, Unfazed Redgrave Real Trouper in 'Nightingale': John Simon (****)

Redgrave Uncorsets a Relative Long Gone By CHARLES ISHERWOOD

Lynn Redgrave explores the life of her maternal grandmother through the prism of her own in her reflective new solo show.

Finian's Rainbow, St James Theatre, New York By Brendan Lemon (****)

First Person: There Are No Small Parts for Finian's Rainbow Star Christopher Fitzgerald

PHOTO CALL: Leavel, Dossett and More Play in Broadway's Mamma Mia!

Photo Op: Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline Shine at Benefit for The Acting Company

Photo Op: Casting Directors Shine (with Help from the Stars) at 2009 Artios Awards

Photo Op: First Look! We're Dreaming of a Fabulous New Cast in White Christmas

PHOTO CALL: Casting Society of America Celebrates 25th Annual Artios Awards

Believe It or Not! By: Joseph Marzullo, Tristan Fuge, & Brian Scott Lipton

Alec Baldwin, Marcia Gay Harden, Ron Howard, Samuel L. Jackson, Kevin Kline, Jude Law, Christopher Meloni, Bette Midler, Jonny Lee Miller, and Meryl Streep are among the stars out on the town.

"Apprentices" Stephen Sondheim and Mary Rodgers at Westport Gala By Frank Rizzo

PAGE SIX: Sienna stands by Slinky

Photo Op: Sir Ian McKellen, Jude Law, Jonny Lee Miller and More Mingle at Only Make Believe Benefit

Andrea Martin's Saucy Comment Last Night! By Michael Musto

PHOTO CALL: Foreman's Idiot Savant, with Dafoe, at the Public

Radio flyer: Go listen to Willem Dafoe on Leonard Lopate by Helen Shaw

BACKSTAGE: Man behind Mr. Zero gains much from role By Jane Horwitz

David Benoit currently resides in character-actor heaven. Which is located, if you're wondering, at 14th and P streets NW -- on the fourth floor.

Remembering Johnny Mercer, all month long By Elysa Gardner

Theatre of the Eighth Day Stages its Noted Wormwood By Tom Sellar

Classical Theatre of Harlem turns a new page? by Raven Snook

Watch It: Lin-Manuel Miranda Raps on History for the Prez

Doctorow Ponders Shock of 'Ragtime,' Tons of Junk: Interview by Zinta Lundborg

Ragtime photo portfolio

The Broadway revival of Ragtime aims to give a modern twist to the turn of the 20th century-as Joan Marcus's exclusive cast portraits suggest.

Going carolling with Chenoweth By Richard Ouzounian

Bubbly singer-actress opening Holt's holiday windows with some early seasonal tunes

Dreamcatcher Repertory Company's 'Happiness' brings smiles

Peter Filichia's Diary: From 1961 to 2009

Carl Ballantine's Broadway Credits

Carl Ballantine, R.I.P. by Mark Evanier

Anthony Heald, Richard Montoya, Herbert Siguenza, et al. Set for Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2010 Season

From deep budget cuts a year ago, Oregon Shakespeare Festival rallies to post revenue record By Marty Hughley

Lily Tomlin to Offer An Intimate Evening at Dixon Place

Craig Lucas, Neil LaBute, Greg Kotis, David Henry Hwang, Maria Irene Fornes, Itamar Moses, Regina Taylor, Rolin Jones among writers penning new short works for ATC by Chris Jones

New Title for "Emmet" at Goodspeed By Frank Rizzo

Maripat Donovan to Star in Sister's Christmas Catechism Off-Broadway

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