A distillation of Arts Watch, the weekly e-blast of Americans for the Arts. This week: Build it and they won’t fund it.

Their take on politics derives energy from our national exhaustion with insurmountable issues

A consensus exploring a pro-arts real-estate tax credit in Gotham is emerging, but it needs public support.

Is David Mamet the biggest jerk in the American theater?

Is this more evidence that the nonprofit arts business model is fundamentally dysfunctional?

Says O’Harra, “Just go to Barnes and Noble and look…the number of plays by women is minuscule compared to those by men.”

The first residencies? Spring 2009, with three Queens-based composers in residence at Flushing Town Hall.

One comes away with the impression that one of the 20th century’s most influential theater directors has lived too long.

When I first entered the industry, I wish there had been a program like this.

Under scrutiny, all of Emily Glassberg Sands’ claims fell apart but one.

We’re in an Orwellian trap: Freedom is Power. Control is Freedom. Everyone is Art.

Revisiting plays from previous seasons — a legacy of the expanding Boomerang.

The flourishing of the arts means we’re doing well as a society. Fury toward the arts means an irregular heartbeat — or worse.

Massachusetts, a hardcore blue state, exercised its Lemon Law rights to a full refund — by voting in Scott Brown.

A distillation of Arts Watch, the weekly e-blast of Americans for the Arts. This week: Pouring salt on cuts.

How many ways can you write, “I didn’t see which way he went?” It’s in the character’s background where you achieve specificity.

The sync-up of “Hair” with the National Equality March turned out to be no charitable one-off. I was wrong.

40 short plays, one week and six finalists.

A proposed tax break for landlords who give “longer leases at below-market rates” to artists is gaining political momentum in Gotham.

If we lose the unique stock that defines its sense of place, New York City will be “like everywhere else, but more expensive and less convenient.”