This Week's Must Read

HERE ARE THIS WEEK'S BEST ARTICLES ABOUT THE PERFORMING ARTS AND CULTURE

• A lesson on how to fight for arts funding from NYC's lean years (American Theatre)
• Great article about public spaces in LA and the Women's March (LA Times)
• The rise of documentary theatre and how it can lead us forward post-election (Howlround)
• It's time theatre cut the pompous jargon (Guardian)
• Distraught Yet Upbeat, Broadway Stars Give ‘Concert for America' (New York Times)
• Targeting the arts is the laziest, stupidest way to pretend to cut the budget (Washington Post)
• Passion and politics at this year's Ovation Awards (@This Stage)
• 5 theatre freelancers (and 1 administrator) open their checkbooks to explain the financial choices they make to survive. (American Theatre)
• Theatre resistance plan for 2017-2020:  There is no more powerful tool for changing ideas, shifting cultural zeitgeist, and resisting authoritarianism than art.  (Bitter Gertrude)
• ‘Zoot Suit,' a Pioneering Chicano Play, Comes Full Circle (New York TImes)
• Music Saved My Life: How Arts Therapy Helped a Master Sergeant Recover from the Wounds of War (NEA Arts Work)
• Lin-Manuel Miranda Touts the Power of Theatre in These Times - The Hamilton creator tells NBC's Tom Brokaw why theatre heals. (Playbill/Dateline)
• Not an article but important to know: — Many museums in the Los Angeles area will be free as part of Museums Free-for-All Day on Jan. 29. (Los Angeles Times)

What "must read" stories in the arts did you encounter this week?

The Lemon

• American Theatre
• bitter gertrude
• dateline
• howlround
• la times
• NEAm arts work
• new york times
• playbill
• this stage
• washington post