Monday, May 25, 2015
Talking about mourning in America: I don't think the creation of a sane, smart, America-first energy policy is going to happen. Certainly it won't happen in this political and economic clima…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PM"The Situation is bigger than Kim Kardashian."The Clyde Fitch Report is pleased to introduce and welcome The Brown Tweed Society, created by Matt Shorr and C.M. Tomlin, to its family of con…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMThe content below is from Americans for the Arts' Arts Watch email blast of Sept. 22, 2010. (Subscribe to it here.)The expressions, opinions and/or comments in italics following each story h…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMThe Brick Theater is so brilliant it just terrifies me.Here's an announcement that the entire New York City theater community should applaud -- in advance.The Brick Theater, Inc.presents...
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMThe fundraising, casting and pre-production organizing involved in the groundbreaking live-streaming live theater production I posted about last week -- Joey Brenneman's Better Left Unsaid -…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMHer name is Phyllis Somerville. And if it isn't immediately familiar to you, take a moment and study the face. Yep, that's right: She plays the role of Marlene on Showtime's deliciously seri…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMThis announcement comes courtesy of an email today from Susan Brady, an archivist at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.The American Society for Theatre Researc…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMRemember when we told you that Marx Brothers Place is going to the dogs? We weren't kidding.But just to reiterate:The supporters of the effort to create Marx Brothers Place -- a stretch of …
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMTwo announcements this past week could well shake up the known geopolitical universe.Or at least shake up the Broadway commercial theater industry.Or at least give it some pause.Or perhaps...
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMThe musical Once Upon a Time in New Jersey, by Susan DiLillo and Stephen Weiner, is described in press materials as an "Italian-American fairy tale set in 1956 Hoboken." It's a sincere, even…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMCongratulations to producer Kathryn Velvel Jones (at left) and congratulations to writer Joey Brenneman -- her play, Better Left Unsaid, will be produced at a theater in New York City this N…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMBy Stefanie SchappertSpecial to The Clyde Fitch [email protected] York City is known as the greatest city on earth. Millions of tourists descend on the city all ye...
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMThe content below is from Americans for the Arts' Arts Watch email blast of Sept. 29, 2010. (Subscribe to it here.)The expressions, opinions and/or comments in italics following each story h…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMThere is nothing but abundant good news in this statement released yesterday by the Mayor's office and excerpted below. Yes, you read the headline correctly: Mayor Bloomberg, Gov. Paterson a…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMThe idea that any high school group of any kind or nature could win anything 17 times strikes me as creepy, stalky and possibly diabetic. Then again, not if you have an angle -- which Andrew…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMA hat tip the size of a homburg -- heck, make it a stovepipe -- goes out to Judith H. Dobrzynski of the Real Clear Arts blog for writing about a study from the International Federation of Ar…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMThe Clyde Fitch Report is pleased to introduce and welcome The Brown Tweed Society, created by Matt Shorr and C.M. Tomlin, to its family of contributors.Each week, the CFR will publish a co.…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMIt might be the 12th day of the 10th month of 2010 -- meaning I'm 12 days past due to post this -- but 19 days remain in National Arts and Humanities month, which means 19 days remain to act…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMThe content below is from Americans for the Arts' Arts Watch email blast of Oct. 5, 2010. (Subscribe to it here.)The expressions, opinions and/or comments in italics following each story hig…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMAs reported previously at the CFR, the National Coalition Against Censorship, together with the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the New School and the School of Visual Arts, held tw…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMUpdate: Since I published this post earlier today, the actor in question has told me that Actor's Equity is threatening to levy a fine for not reporting box office receipts from the New York…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMEither the ArtsJournal bloggers have been on fire lately or I haven't paid them enough attention. Both are possible, but I'm thinking it's the former. Richard Kessler's arts education blog D…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMThe playwright William M. Hoffman's As Is remains an iconic example of 1980s drama, written in the withering heat of the AIDS crisis (well, the first wave, anyway). After an Off-Broadway run…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMThe content below is from Americans for the Arts' Arts Watch email blast of Oct. 19, 2010. (Subscribe to it here.)The expressions, opinions and/or comments in italics following each story hi…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMWho'd pass it up? Only the most radical of the radical-right, I guess, as only they would presumably consider the arts as threatening to their worldview.For the rest of us, meanwhile, it's i…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMOMG, as the cast of Glee might say. Although I'm using the acronym somewhat acrimoniously. Will theater artists stop attacking a certain theater critic -- my friend Wendy Rosenfield -- in Ph…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMLook at those eyes. In their time, in their prime, they must have held all the power of incantatory spells. They were the eyes of a killer.They belonged to Beulah Annan, who was the inspirat…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMI pulled out what's left of my hair mulling a recent event I attended, called "The Wicked Women of Off-Broadway." It took place Sun., Oct. 3 at the Snapple Theater Center, the latest in a se…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMEach 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 05:58PMTwo new stories for AOL's recently launched City's Best.First one on Gatz, running at the Public Theater:Leave it to F. Scott Fitzgerald, who died in 1940, to knock the "Jersey Shore" crew .…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:58PMWho 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 …
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