WHY CAN'T WE ALL JUST GET ALONG? WE CAN.(cooperation between commercial and non-profit theatre groups)(Brief Article)
American Theatre, September, 2000 by O'Quinn, Jim
You might think of it as the longest intermission in history.
The first time the entire national theatre community decided to get together, it was 1974. Nonprofit theatres were gaining momentum, but they had money problems; Broadway was in decline, and it had even worse money problems. Some 220 professionals from both sectors, along with foundation executives, educators and a few individual artists, met at Princeton University at the invitation of Broadway producer Alexander Cohen. The meeting was called FACT (the First Annual Congress of Theatre). It didn't go very well. FACT ...
Read the rest of this article with a Free Trial at HighBeam Research.