LA Without the NEA, Her Opponent and more - This Week's Must Read

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

• What does the NEA's $148-million budget buy? 7,789,473 taco bowls but not even one mile of the 405 Freeway (LA Times)
• What are We Watching? What are We Teaching? Preparing Acting Students for the New Golden Age (Howlround)
• Look Back at the Original Production of Miss Saigon (Playbill)
• Gender-Bending Debate Play ‘Her Opponent' to Open Off Broadway (NY Times)
• What Theatre Artists and Administrators Should Know About Sexual Harassment (Howlround)
• A Conversation With Anne Bogart: “I'm Absolutely Certain That Certainty Is Bad” (Theatre Times)
• Two Female Playwrights Arrive on Broadway. What Took So Long? (NY Times)

The LA Times is doing a series on what local companies will be affected if the NEA is cut - CHECK IT OUT

• L.A. without the NEA: Series looks at what a city loses if funding gets the ax
• L.A. Without the NEA: Cornerstone brings theater to the theater-less
• L.A. without the NEA: Lula Washington's aim is to lift up lives through dance

And for some FUN: Donald:  The Musical

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

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