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Coming Attractions: Popular Music in April 2010

By Thomas Samph Vampire movies, dirty whigs, Wilco beer, peace bombs, Russian retrograde, tappin’ khakis, and sweaty Soviet soirees are just a few reasons why April is a great month for music listeners in Boston. The month starts off with a performance by the illegitimate love child of two musical genres, heavy metal and opera […]

By: Thomas Samph Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Music, Popular Music, World Books Tagged: April, Atoms for Peace, Citi-Performing-Arts-Center, Gogol Bordello, Great Scott, Harper's Ferry, heavy metal, House of Blues, Kaki King, Middle-East, OrpheumTheatre, Popular Music, Radio Moscow, The Whigs, Thom Yorke, Thomas Samph, Trans Siberian Orchestra, Vampire Weekend, Wilco

Boston Foundation To Small Theaters — Drop Dead Please!

by Bill Marx A recent report from the Boston Foundation helpfully advises that if a small arts group’s vision “either dissipated or lost its resonance with its audience or supporters” the troupe should either die quietly or merge with other struggling companies, apparently so they can vanish in bulk more efficiently. But what about larger […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: anthony-tommasini, artezani, Broadway, Citi-Performing-Arts-Center, Citigroup, Cultural-facilities-fund, Hansel-and-Gretel, Harry-potter, Ian-Mackinnon, Josiah-Spaulding-jr., mcc, OUTPOST, Persona Non Grata, Small-group-die-off, Theater

Keep an Eye on Spaulding and Company

Bloggers predicted that CEO/President Josiah Spaulding Jr.’s over-the-top 1.265 million dollar retention bonus would spark inquiries into how much money goes where at the Citi Performing Arts Center (CPAC). It does not seem too much to ask, given that the state and other funders are throwing much moolah at a troubled nonprofit arts institution whose […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: arts-institution-ceo-president, arts-organizations, boston-arts-institutions, Boston-Foundation, boston-globe, Citi-Performing-Arts-Center, Citigroup, CPAC, free-shakespeare, honcho, Josiah-Spaulding, massachusetts-cultural-council, mcc, money, nonprofit-arts, Persona Non Grata, retention-bonus, second-largest-bank, Theater

Got Spaulding?

The same publicity firm, Weber Shandwick, that launched the “got milk?” campaign is doing damage control for Citi Performing Arts Center and its beleaguered Chairman and CEO Josiah Spaulding, Jr. Perhaps a recent Boston Globe editorial calling for Spaulding to be replaced was the last straw. WS has sent out an image-repair “open letter” to […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Citi-Performing-Arts-Center, Josiah-Spaulding, Persona Non Grata, Shakespeare-in-the-Common, Theater, Weber-Shadwick

Arts Commentary: The Virtual Arts Center

By Bill Marx On June 21, the Boston Foundation announced that the Citi Performing Arts Center (CPAC, formerly the Wang Center for the Performing Arts) would be receiving $225,000. This is not only the largest single grant given to any institution for the quarter; it is the most money (by a long shot) the Wang/CPAC […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Theater Tagged: Boston-Foundation, Citi-Performing-Arts-Center, Citigroup, CPAC, Persona Non Grata, Theater

Arts Commentary: Ducking Blowback

Yesterday, a Boston Globe editorial asked that Josiah Spaulding, Jr., president of the Citi Performing Arts Center (CPAC) be replaced. Of course he should go, but that will not solve the CPAC’s problems. Yesterday, a Boston Globe editorial asked that Josiah Spaulding, Jr., president of the Citi Performing Arts Center (CPAC) be replaced. The suggestion […]

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Theater Tagged: Citi-Performing-Arts-Center, Commonwealth-Shakespeare-Company, Josiah-Spaulding, Persona Non Grata, Shakespeare-on-the-common, Theater

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