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1. Nina Metz seemed pleased with The Butcher of Baraboo at A Red Orchid.

Seems as if I just finished reporting the Congressional stupidities over 2012 funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (after 10 months of delays and dithering, Congress approved precisely what President Obama had requested) and now here we are again, with the White House budget proposals for

It’s like global warming: a lot of the evidence is anecdotal rather than empirical. But over the last decade at least, plays have been getting shorter and shorter. Are playwrights at fault?

1. Tony Kushner will be speaking at the AIDS Foundation of Chicago's spring dinner on March 27, reports the Associated Press.