Responding to a claim that theater is just for white people

Jan. 5, 2012
I started to comment in response to this claim that non-whites are disproportionately absent from the theater audience because they just don't care about the art form, or--as the author insouciantly asks, and as You've Cott Mail titled the post--"Is it so bad to admit that theater is for white peopl

Three words you don't generally hear from a critic: 'I was wrong'

Nov. 21, 2011
. . . but, before you get all excited, I'm not talking about critical judgments I've offered on shows.

Theater economics: Artists and unions

Apr. 26, 2011
From the indispensable "You’ve Cott Mail", a digest of arts news from throughout the English-speaking world, comes this sample of conventional wisdom about the source of arts’ groups funding troubles: a posting at ArtsMarketOn arguing that orchestra and theater bankruptcies prove that artists are ju