This blog is about the business and finances of the professional theatre, so this post is off-topic. But I had a small epiphany last week I want to share.
I was in NYC to see some theatre, go to museums, eat some good meals. As I entered the hotel elevator with the New York Times, a gentleman asked, "Any news?" I glanced at the front page, dominated by a photo of the destruction in Haiti. "As they say," I replied, "No news is good news."
As the elevator rose, I turned first to the the Arts section as I always do. Suddenly it occurred to me that the arts are the closest thing we can readily find to good news. Even a theatrical tragedy makes the heart well up at the thought of human creativity crafting a moment of completeness, a story that unlike real life has a wholeness. For those of us who love any of the arts--my favorite is theatre--the experience of the arts is usually the only good news readily available.
