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Drama League Awards, CTG Playwrights Initiative and more - This Week's Must Read

Center Theatre Group partners with NY Second Stage in commissioning new work (New York Times)
Center Theatre Group Launches New Playwrights Initiative (American Theatre)
11 of the funniest Shakespearean insults (What's On Stage)
Sam Gold on Trump and theatre: 'We have a place to put our anger and fear' (Guardian)
Participatory Performance, Activism, and the Limits of Change (Howlround)
The George Takei musical 'Allegiance' is coming to L.A. (LA Times)
This Is a Journey Into Sound: Simon McBurney on ‘The Encounter' (American Theatre)
Emma Rice: Shakespeare's Globe board ‘did not respect me' (The Stage)
Drama League Awards Nominees- What It All Means for the 2017 Tony Awards (Broadway World)
Steve Martin on Teaching You (and Himself) How to Be a Comedian (NY Times)
What Role Can Art Play In Politics? (Theatre Times)

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

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

And for some FUN: Donald: The Musical

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

John Cleese: How to write the perfect farce (Guardian)
See Hillary Clinton and Steven Spielberg at Sunset Boulevard (Playbill)
2 Cast Albums Hit Billboard Top 20 for the First Time in 50 Years (Playbill)
The most fearless woman in opera? Patricia Racette on coming out, Trump, nudity and the demands of 'Salome' (LA Times)
Unmasking the Trauma: A Look at Research on Mask Making as a Creative Arts Therapy (NEA Art Works)
Watch Phillipa Soo Perform From Amélie (Playbill)
Headlong Theatre's “1984”: Orwell's Nightmare Or A Smug Satire For The Inner Party? (The Theatre Times)
In Search of an Artistic Sabbatical (Howlround)
What Has Equity Won in Los Angeles? (American Theatre)
A new satire must emerge – one that breaks out of the liberal bubble (Guardian)
Privilege is playing too great a role in the arts (Guardian)

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

Simon McBurney: Beware of Pity is chillingly resonant in the Trump era (Guardian)
Taking Note: Trending Now—an Arts Imperative in Economic Policy (NEA Arts Work)
If you love cultural criticism, you have to see ‘I Am Not Your Negro' (Washington Post)
Remembering playwright Sarah Kane (Theatre Times)
Headlong's 1984, the Hot Book of the Trump Era, is coming to Broadway (NY Times)
Middle Eastern America and the Theatre of Belonging (Howlround)
Dramatists Legal Defense Fund to Honor HAMILTON Cast for Speech to Vice President Mike Pence (Broadway World)
"Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" is 50 and racial tension still a problem in America (LA Times)
Shape the Future of the World Theatre Map (Howlround)
That Time John Malkovich Nearly Burned Down Steppenwolf (Playbill)
How the Trump travel ban is already impacting L.A. arts institutions and artists (LA Times)
What if Trump Really Does End Money for the Arts? (NY Times)
Video Games as an Art Form Part 3: Bringing Games to Life (Howlround)

What "must read" stories in the arts did you encounter this week? Let us know in the comments!