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American Television Simply Can’t Deal With Aging And Death

TV execs might say the reason is that audiences don’t like to see death (which seems a little odd after the successes of Six Feet Under, but … sure, network TV). A closer look reveals the driving force: “The real reason there was so little exploration of death in prime-time programming was that advertisers did not want their products associated with it, a connection that still drives some advertisers to pull their ads from news programs covering disasters and mass fatalities.” – Baltimore Sun

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Chicago’s Lookingglass Theatre Gets New Leadership, Including Famous Alumnus David Schwimmer

The new co-artistic directors are Ericka Ratcliff, most recently literary manager at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, and longtime Lookingglass ensemble member David Catlin. Another longtime member, Philip R. Smith, will be executive director, while Schwimmer takes the new position of producing director, focusing on fundraising, marketing, board development and finding co-producing...
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Soprano Christine Goerke Launches New Organization To Present Vocal Music (Of All Kinds) In Detroit

She will be the artistic director, with Matthew Principe as executive director and creative strategist, of VOX Detroit, which will produce concerts of — as Goerke describes it — “opera, cabaret, musical theatre, song, recital, spoken word, and whatever wonderful things happen to fall in between.” - Detroit Free...
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Whitney Museum Staffers Are Going On Strike Right Before Major Roy Lichtenstein Retrospective

“Unionized staff at the Whitney Museum of Art will begin striking on Monday, October 5, if they cannot reach a contract agreement with the museum, Local 2110 UAW announced. … (That’s) only three days before member and press previews open for the museum’s major Roy Lichtenstein retrospective (the show opens to...

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