ON THE CALENDAR
2009 Live Arts Festival - How Theater Failed America
From gorgeous new theaters standing empty as cathedrals, to “successful” working actors traveling like migrant farmhands, to an arts culture unwilling to speak or listen to its own nation, Mike Daisey takes stock of the dystopian state of theater in America: a shrinking world with smaller audiences every year. A darkly hilarious - and truthful - dissection of the art that’s being made.
What: Fair, Festival; Comedy, Drama; Fringe Festival; Professional, Semi-professional; Solo Performance
Tickets:
$25
When it was all ready one afternoon last week - the dry-brined turkey a rosy chestnut brown, the Sister Frances' Potatoes (named for one of the last of the famously celibate Shakers), the brothy, purposefully not creamy blue-pumpkin soup (with a sour jolt of preserved lemon), Melissa Hamilton beamed at what she had wrought.
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