Partnership Potential.(Brief Article)

Around the time this issue of American Theatre hits the streets, the closing gavel will be sounding in Cambridge, Mass., at ACT 2, the first national attempt since 1974 to convene the for-profit and the not-for-profit theatre sectors.

The first attempt (the First American Congress of Theater, or FACT) was, by all accounts, a notoriously fractious affair. Accusations and recriminations were hurled, gauntlets thrown and all of those involved seemed quite ready to be rid of one another. What had been initially convened as a potential annual event adjourned without any real ...

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