Heather Hitchens, Executive Director of the American Theatre Wing, was in Albuquerque this past week talking about the place that the arts holds in a thriving community and how we might…

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Imagine your world without the arts. Your living room, for example, would have nothing on the walls. No paintings, no posters, no photographs, no paint. Your furniture would have no shape or color. Your television would be nothing but sports and news. This may sound like a frat boy’s paradise, but most of us would find it disturbing.



We send many of our children to schools with no arts. Why don’t we find that equally… Continue

Peter Meineck discusses mirror neurons.



The word “community” has cropped up from three distinct sources lately, and always in relation to theater. I’ll take that as a sign.



First, I stumbled on a video where Thomas Schumacher, president of Disney Theatricals, discusses why attending live theater — or working to create a theatrical production — is… Continue