Topic: Rocco Landesman

Feel the magic - oh, try - on mid-Market

San Francisco Chronicle - 274 days ago
0 . Friday night's Art in Storefronts Launch Celebration, a party organized by the San Francisco Arts Commission, began at the corner of Market and ...

Think Culture is Expensive? Try Ignorance.

Big Think - 919 days ago
The National Endowment for the Arts has a new director and a new slogan-forget "A Great Nation Deserves Great Art". Late last week Broadway producer Rocco Landesman was confirmed by Congress as the new head of the NEA. besides the new slogan ...

'Art Works'

Forbes - 921 days ago
Not many federal appointees enter their jobs the way Rocco Landesman did the other day: Landesman also said he would plump for big, not incremental, increases in the NEA's $155 million budget, which he called "pathetic. In some ways, Landesman is ...

Trendsetters: Performing Arts

Forbes - 989 days ago
Strapped for cash due to falling donations, the Brooklyn Philharmonic announced in April that it would cancel its remaining concert for the season for the full orchestra, as well as the entire 2009-10 season.. "There is a huge amount of experimentation with ...

Broadway producer nominated to lead Arts Endowment

AP News - 1009 days ago
Broadway producer Rocco Landesman nominated as chairman of National Endowment for the ArtsRocco Landesman, a producer known for bringing such hits as " Big River," "Angels in America" and "The Producers" to Broadway, has been nominated as the next chairman of the National ...

Godzilla Slugger Matsui Pays $10.5 M. for Trump Place Penthouse

The New York Observer - 1134 days ago
Hideki Matsui, a Yankee slugger so wonderfully modest that he once publicly apologized for fracturing his left wrist during a failed sliding catch (I feel very sorry and, at the same time, very disappointed to have let my teammates down), apparently has ...

Bring Your Questions for Broadway Producer Rocco Landesman

Freakonomics - 1521 days ago
Rocco Landesman is a Broadway original, a producer with the heart of an artist, and a rogue businessman if ever there was one. ) He is president of Jujamcyn Theatres, one of the big three Broadway theater companies, and is also one of ...