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Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Kathleen Turner to play Molly Ivins in new play
Molly Ivins, the salty-tongue Texas columnist, will be portrayed by Kathleen Turner in a new play about Ivins’ lively career and character.
Philadelphia Theatre Company will premiere ‘Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins’ a new play by Margaret Engel and Allison Engel.
Playbill reports that the production will run March 19-April 18, 2010.
Why Philadelphia and not the Lone Star State? Because if you want to align your production for an eventual Broadway run — or even to be a considered for such — you open it first in places like Philly or Boston.
Among her other brilliant witticisms, Ivins coined the nickname “Shrub” for George W. Bush.
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City of Austin gets NEA grant for professional workshops
The City of Austin Cultural Arts Division has been awarded a $35,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
In its first round of FY2010 grants the NEA is distributing $26,968,500 to support 1,207 projects nationwide, the agency reported.
The Cultural Arts Division will use the grant to expand its ‘Take it to the Next Level’ series of workshops that offers training to non-profit arts and culture organizations and for-profit creative industries professionals.
Past workshop topics can be found at www.cityofaustin.org/nextlevel.
The city also hopes leverage the NEA funds to stage a statewide arts conference, tentatively scheduled for Spring 2011, that will offer the same kind of strategic and business training for creative professional. The conference will be presented in partnership with the Texas Commission on the Arts.
