American Theatre back issues from February 2008:
Editor's note.(Editorial)
Feb 01, 2008; ... Yes, the stony visages affixed to illustrator Miguel Hernandez's faux Mount Rushmore on this month's fanciful cover represent the three leading lights of American theatre criticism who are still with us to discuss the volatile, much-castigated, underappreciated and utterly essential ...
This art is mine.(FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR)(art criticism)
Feb 01, 2008; ... Recent research and publications from luminaries in our field examine historic trends in the way individuals participate in the arts: from active participation (late-19th-century piano playing at home, drawing, etc.); to passive consumption (watching movies, listening to radio, attending ...
TCG annual report 2006-07.(NEWS FROM THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP AVAILABLE ONLINE)
Feb 01, 2008 ... The TCG annual report for the 2007 fiscal year highlights such endeavors and milestones as welcoming new executive director Teresa Eyring; the National Conference in Minneapolis/St. Paul; Building a National TEAM: Theatre Education Assessment Models, a joint project of TCG and Theatre for ...
Advocacy news: congress approves historic NEA increase.(NEWS FROM THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP AVAILABLE ONLINE)(National Endowment for the Arts)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Funding for the National Endowment for the Arts will grow by $20.1 million in fiscal year 2008, the largest single increase for the agency in more than 30 years, bringing the total support for the agency to $144.7 million. This increase in funding reflects years of advocacy by TCG, the ...
New from TCG Books.(NEWS FROM THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP AVAILABLE ONLINE)(The Seafarer)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Concurrent with its Broadway opening, TCG Books has released Irish playwright Conor McPherson's newest play, The Seafarer, about a whiskey-soaked Christmas Eve card game with particularly high stakes. "As written and directed [by McPherson], the five carefully shaped characters of The ...
American Theatre online.(NEWS FROM THEATRE COMMUNICATIONS GROUP AVAILABLE ONLINE)
Feb 01, 2008 ... WWW.TCG.ORG/AMERICANTHEATER FROM THIS ISSUE: What Women Want Alexis Greene on Women's Project and the state of women in theatre The Critic as Thinker A roundtable discussion at New York City's Philoctetes Center with critics Eric ...
Merely players.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(contemporary art exhibition)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008 ... BOSTON: "Props," "sets," "audience"--all terms one might reconsider after absorbing some unusual notions on view at Boston's Institute of Contemporary Art. In "The World as a Stage," an exhibition running through April 27 after originating at London's Tate Modern last year, 16 ...
Diversity on the menu.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008 ... CHICAGO: A new subscription-based program, designed to highlight the non-white theatre offerings in Chicago, seeks to address recent questions about the Illinois theatre capital's image as too predominantly white. Silk Road Theatre Project, the League of Chicago Theatres, Remy Bumppo ...
A room of their own.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(Burning Coal Theatre Company)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008 ... RALEIGH, N.C.: Like many small theatre groups, Burning Coal Theatre Company has known the nomad life, forever adapting its schedule and budget to rental facilities. But on Jan. 31 the theatre celebrated new autonomy with the opening of its first permanent home--Raleigh's only theatre ...
Marketing for a cause.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(Jujamcyn Theaters launch a fundraising website)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008 ... NEW YORK CITY: Now you can buy a ticket to a New York show--and donate to charity at the same time. Jordan Roth, vice president of Jujamcyn Theaters, has announced the launch of Givenik.com, a new site that doubles as a ticketing program and fundraising mechanism. Site visitors who ...
Quo vadis, arts leaders?(NEWS IN BRIEF)(National Arts Strategies)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008 ... WASHINGTON, D.C.: Starting this month, leaders in the arts and culture section can kvetch about such pressing issues as audience development, fundraising and financial management in an online learning community created by National Arts Strategies (NAS), a D.C.-based provider of executive ...
An actor's garden of verses.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(Poetry Theatre website)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008 ... CYBERSPACE: One of the things country singer Willie Nelson and soap opera vet Anthony Herrera have bonded over in 20 years of friendship is the belief that poetry is best savored in performance. Herrera quotes his former teacher Stella Adler: "An actor does not get up in the morning and ...
Give my regards to the Internet.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(Tommy Tune Gallery website)(Website overview)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008 ... CYBERSPACE: "My intention is to provide art for everyone--affordable art," says Tommy Tune. If Broadway ticket prices belie that intention, never mind; he's not talking about his dancing or choreography, but a less famous outlet for his creativity: his paintings. With the opening of an ...
Sheridan wasn't born here.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(Richard Brinsley Sheridan was not born in Dublin)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008 ... DUBLIN: A school for scandal has emerged over the campaign to preserve 12 Dorset Street, the Dublin birthplace of Richard Brinsley Sheridan. In a September '07 report in The Irish Independent, Sheridan historians based at Ireland's Trinity College have proved "conclusively (that) the house ...
Moliere in a brassiere.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(The Miser and The Golden State)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008 ... LOS ANGELES: This month, two California troupes with a socially conscious bent are giving capitalist greed another swift kick in the pants in an update of Moliere's The Miser. The Blue Lake-based physical theatre ensemble Dell'Arte International and L.A.'s 24th Street Theatre are ...
Martin McDonagh's Bruegel dreams.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(In Bruges)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008; ... AROUND THE COUNTRY: "Where the feck is Bruges?" one of Martin McDonagh's characters would likely say. A beautifully preserved medieval city in Belgium, Bruges (pronounced "broozh") is about an hour from Brussels, and stepping inside this storybook Flemish city, with its enchanting canals ...
Thirst, do no harm.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre's Invigorate the Common Well)
Feb 01, 2008; ... MINNEAPOLIS: The splashy series in progress at In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre began in the lobby of its home, the 1930s Avalon Theatre. Shortly before settling there, HOBT devoted three years to an elaborate project all about water. Yet in its 20 years at the Avalon, the ...
Peter DuBois will join Huntington Theatre Company in July as its artistic director.(ENTRANCES & EXITS)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Peter DuBois will join Huntington Theatre Company in July as its artistic director, a position endowed in 2002 by Stanford Calderwood in honor of his wife, Huntington trustee Norma Jean Calderwood. DuBois, who grew up in New England, comes to the Boston company from New York's Public ...
Laura Penn will succeed Barbara Hauptman as executive director of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, the independent labor union located in New York City, this spring.(ENTRANCES & EXITS)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Laura Penn will succeed Barbara Hauptman as executive director of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, the independent labor union located in New York City, this spring. Penn has been the managing director of Seattle's Intiman Theatre for 14 years. Prior to that she was ...
Ryan Rilette will depart in March to become managing director of Marin Theatre Company in Mill Valley, Calif.(ENTRANCES & EXITS)(Ryan Rilette will depart Southern Rep )(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Ryan Rilette, who has led New Orleans's Southern Rep for six years as producing artistic director, will depart in March to become managing director of Marin Theatre Company in Mill Valley, Calif. It was Rilette's role as the secretary of the ...
Salvage Vanguard Theater's founding artistic director, Jason Neulander, announced he will step down in late spring.(ENTRANCES & EXITS)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Salvage Vanguard Theater's founding artistic director, Jason Neulander, announced he will step down in late spring. Neulander began the Austin company in 1994 and has shepherded it from an upstart group with a ...
Completing the transition from founder to new artistic director is San Francisco's Brava Theater Center.(ENTRANCES & EXITS)(Raelle Myrick-Hodges)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Completing the transition from founder to new artistic director is San Francisco's Brava Theater Center. Raelle Myrick-Hodges will become the 21-year-old company's second artistic director, following the departure of ...
PJ Paparelli took on the artistic directorship of Chicago's American Theater Company in November after spending three and a half years in that capacity at Alaska's Perseverance Theatre.(ENTRANCES & EXITS)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008 ... PJ Paparelli took on the artistic directorship of Chicago's American Theater Company in November after spending three and a half years in that capacity at Alaska's Perseverance Theatre. He served as associate director ...
Aaron Kubey is the new executive director of the National Theatre of the Deaf in West Hartford, Conn.(ENTRANCES & EXITS)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Aaron Kubey is the new executive director of the National Theatre of the Deaf in West Hartford, Conn., following the retirement of Paul L. Winters. In addition to working as a paralegal for Mendes and Mount, LLP, Kubey has been artistic director of New ...
Shakespeare Theatre Company managing director Nicholas T. Goldsborough departed the Washington, D.C.-based theatre in December to start his own consulting firm.(ENTRANCES & EXITS)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Shakespeare Theatre Company managing director Nicholas T. Goldsborough departed the Washington, D.C.-based theatre in December to start his own consulting firm. Goldsborough joined Shakespeare Theatre Company in 2002 and was instrumental in its campaign for the Harman Center ...
Seattle's A Contemporary Theatre is reclaiming one of its own to be managing director.(ENTRANCES & EXITS)(Kevin M. Hughes)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Seattle's A Contemporary Theatre is reclaiming one of its own to be managing director. Kevin M. Hughes began his career at ACT working in the box office and as assistant controller. He went on to be a member of the acting ...
Book-It Repertory Theatre has appointed its interim managing director, Charlotte M. Tiencken, to permanent status.(ENTRANCES & EXITS)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Also in Seattle, Book-It Repertory Theatre has appointed its interim managing director, Charlotte M. Tiencken, to permanent status. Tiencken ...
Nicholas J. Puma Jr. has been promoted to the role of managing director for Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass.(ENTRANCES & EXITS)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Nicholas J. Puma Jr. has been promoted to the role of managing director for Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass. He will continue with his current duties as chief financial officer and human ...
Teatro Vista ... Theatre with a View, in Chicago, has named Laura B. Wurz its managing director.(ENTRANCES & EXITS)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Teatro Vista ... Theatre with a View, in Chicago, has named Laura B. Wurz its managing director. Wurz's experience includes posts ...
Karen Wood is the new managing director of Laguna Playhouse in California beginning this month.(ENTRANCES & EXITS)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Karen Wood is the new managing director of Laguna Playhouse in California beginning this month. Wood spent the past seven years as managing director of San Diego Repertory Theatre and has previously served in that ...
Benny Sato Ambush will not become producing artistic director of African Continuum Theatre Company.(ENTRANCES & EXITS)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Benny Sato Ambush will not, as previously announced, become producing ...
Globe trio.(NEWS IN BRIEF)(Old Globe Theater of San Diego )(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Not many arts organizations can boast a 72-year history--much less only two artistic leaders over that span. But despite its advanced age, the Old Globe of San Diego, Calif., is reinventing its mold. Longtime artistic director Jack O'Brien (who succeeded founding director Craig Noel in ...
Actors' Equity Association handed out a trio of honors at the end of the year.(AWARDS & PRIZES)(Lauren Ambrose, Jay O. Sanders and Byron Jennings)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Actors' Equity Association handed out a trio of honors at the end of the year. Jay O. Sanders received the St. Clair Bayfield Award--earmarked for outstanding performances in Shakespeare plays--for his portrayal of Bottom in the Public Theater's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Lauren Ambrose ...
Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation.(AWARDS & PRIZES)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008 ... The Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation recently announced its inaugural Denham Fellowship, stipulated to support young directors, particularly women. May Adrales ...
Playwright Daniel Alexander Jones hooked the Playwrights' Center McKnight National Residency and Commission.(AWARDS & PRIZES)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Playwright Daniel Alexander Jones hooked the Playwrights' Center McKnight National Residency and Commission, a hefty award which includes a cash prize of $12,500, plus development funds for a ...
Theatre Bay Area in California announced its latest round of CA$H recipients (the acronym stands for Creative Assistance for the Small company and Hungry artist).(AWARDS & PRIZES)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Theatre Bay Area in California announced its latest round of CA$H recipients (the acronym stands for Creative Assistance for the Small company and Hungry ...
The Business Committee for the Arts has released its annual list of the top 10 corporate supporters of the arts for 2007.(AWARDS & PRIZES)(Brief article)(List)
Feb 01, 2008 ... The Business Committee for the Arts has released its annual list of the top 10 corporate supporters of the arts for 2007: the Boeing Company (Illinois), the Boldt Company (Wisconsin), Deutsche Bank (New York), Gibson Guitar Corporation ...
Master set designer Ming Cho Lee was celebrated with the Nelson A. Rockefeller Award, presented by Purchase College, an honor given for commitment to the arts and environment.(AWARDS & PRIZES)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Master set designer Ming Cho Lee was celebrated with the Nelson A. Rockefeller Award, presented by Purchase College, an honor given for commitment to the arts and environment ....
Producer Cheryl Wiesenfeld earned Theater Resources Unlimited's TRU Spirit of Theater Award.(AWARDS & PRIZES)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Producer Cheryl Wiesenfeld earned Theater Resources Unlimited's TRU Spirit of Theater Award. The citation is given ...
The cultural counselor of the Embassy of France conferred the French Order of Arts and Letters upon theatre and multidisciplinary curator RoseLee Goldberg, whose PERFORMA arts festival played in New York City this past fall.(AWARDS & PRIZES)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008 ... The cultural counselor of the Embassy of France conferred the French Order of Arts and Letters upon theatre and multidisciplinary curator RoseLee Goldberg, whose PERFORMA arts festival ...
Billy Crystal was saluted as the 10th recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor.(AWARDS & PRIZES)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Billy Crystal was saluted as the 10th recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor during a ...
Inside Broadway presented Broadway Beacon Awards.(AWARDS & PRIZES)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Inside Broadway presented Broadway Beacon Awards (for supporting arts education in New ...
Chicago Dramatists inducted four new resident playwrights in January.(AWARDS & PRIZES)(Ron Hirsen, Chris Mann, Steven Simoncic and Marisa Wegrzyn)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008 ... Chicago Dramatists inducted four new resident playwrights in January: Ron Hirsen (The Frugal Repast), Chris Mann (View from the Top), Steven Simoncic (Heat Wave, see page 48) and Marisa ...
Danny Newman: 1919-2007.(IN MEMORIAM)(In memoriam)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008; ... Danny Newman died. Strange, I thought all legends were immortal. All right, I know, Danny wasn't a legend, he was legendary. He was a gentleman, a man of culture and a salesman who could have sold the Devil a match. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Ask the knowledgeable ...
San Diego, Calif.: touching gloves; The history of boxing is packed with riveting characters.(FRONT & CENTER)
Feb 01, 2008; ... The first African-American heavyweight champ, Jack Johnson, inspired playwright Howard Sackler's 1969 Tony-winner The Great White Hope; this past November, Merrimack Repertory Theatre of Massachusetts premiered David E. Lane's Tunney/Shakespeare in Six Rounds, about poetically inclined ...
New York City; Theatre: mother's little helper.(FRONT & CENTER)(Secrets of a Soccer Mom)
Feb 01, 2008; ... PUT YOUR PLANNER IN THE GLOVE compartment--soccer moms everywhere are heading to Off Broadway. Who is today's "soccer mom," anyway? Is she the sports-obsessed, stay-at-home spaz satirized in the stereotype? Not in Secrets of a Soccer Mom, beginning Feb. 9 Off Broadway. For playwright ...
Philadelphia, Chicago and Indianapolis, Ind.: hot-button commodity.(FRONT & CENTER)(Black Gold theater play)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008; ... Like many Americans, Seth Rozin was baffled by the government's response to New Orleans's troubles after Hurricane Katrina. "It became clear that class played an even more central role than race," he reasons. So how would the government respond if an "untapped reservoir of riches" turned ...
Washington, D.C.: a frog with a philosophy.(FRONT & CENTER)(The Story of Boonah, the Tree-Climbing Frog)
Feb 01, 2008; ... AMONG THE MYRIAD CHALLENGES FACING A DIRECTOR director attempting to stage a musical about a frog stuck in a tree, the one that most surprised Amon Miyamoto was being thought of as a copycat. "On Broadway there were a lot of shows in the past in which the main character was a frog," says ...
February: almanac.(FRONT & CENTER)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008 ... 335 YEARS AGO (1673) Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (better known by his stage name, Moliere) collapses during the fourth performance of his newly penned Le Malade imaginaire (The Imaginary Invalid). Overwhelmed by a coughing fit brought on by pulmonary tuberculosis, Moliere insists on ...
New York City: hello, cruel world.(FRONT & CENTER)(Theater review)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008; ... ANTONIN ARTAUD'S "THEATRE of cruelty" is better known through his volume The Theatre and Its Double than on the stage--ironic for a manifesto calling for the demolition of masterpieces and the return to the visceral and subconscious. The play he wrote to practice his provocative preaching, ...
Bethesda, MD.: the care and feeding of book clubs.(FRONT & CENTER)(Brief article)(Comedy review)
Feb 01, 2008; ... WITH THREE KIDS UNDER THE AGE of six, three world premieres slated this spring and at least three additional commissions from major regional theatres in the works, D.C.-based playwright Karen Zacarias doesn't have time to read anymore. "I love my book club, though," she avows. "It's not ...
What women want: Women's Project is off life support and reenergized--but has all the persistence and the passion added up to real change for women in the American theatre?
Feb 01, 2008; ... ON the wall of Julie Crosby's office at Women's Project, an 8.5-by-ll-inch sheet of paper broadcasts a "Recipe for Success" in sizeable black letters: <Pre> CREATE GREAT ART MARKET LIKE HELL BUILD THE BOARD ASK FOR MONEY </Pre> "It's something Michael M. Kaiser, ...
The critic as thinker: a discussion at the Philoctetes Center of New York City.(THE FUTURE OF CRITICISM)(Interview)
Feb 01, 2008; ... ROGER COPELAND: The three panelists sitting around this table are three of the hardiest long-distance runners in the business, and because all of them have been so tirelessly productive for so many years, the task of introducing them and doing justice to their achievements is going to be ...
Should you take a critic to lunch?... and other tough questions about the state of theatre criticism, with some tentative answers from Denver, San Francisco and Nashville.(THE FUTURE OF CRITICISM)
Feb 01, 2008; ... LET'S ASSUME THE IMPORTANCE OF THEATRE CRITICISM AS A GIVEN. Scores of artists and virtually all the major critics of the past century or two have articulated how good critical writing nourishes the theatre. From Oscar Wilde's famous 1890 essay defining "the critic as artist," ...
Notes on heart and mind: or, the promise of theatre criticism in the republic of broken dreams.(THE FUTURE OF CRITICISM)
Feb 01, 2008; ... <Pre> My dear anonymous letter writers, if you think it is so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I suggest you try both? You may discover why there are so few critics, so many poets. --Pauline Kael, I Lost It at the Movies </Pre> ...
The Romance of Magno Rubio: Ma-Yi Theater Company.(PRODUCTION NOTEBOOK)(Theater review)
Feb 01, 2008; ... Loy Arcenas, DIRECTION AND SCENIC DESIGN: The characters you see in these photos are Filipino migrant workers in 1930s California, who move from area to area depending on where the crops are ready to be harvested. Much of what was true about their lives then is still true today. They live ...
Eisa Davis: voice with a pedigree; Hip-hop wordplay and musicality ring out in her work.(PEOPLE)(Biography)
Feb 01, 2008; ... "My only trouble is not having more than 24 hours in the day," laughs Eisa Davis. She's just rushed in, breathless and bright-eyed, from a rewrite session devoted to her new play, Six Minutes, which was read at New York City's LAByrinth Theater Company in December. She's wearing jeans, a ...
Chicago at the boiling point: the city's tragic 1995 heat wave is fodder for a new drama.(CURRENTS)(Theater review)
Feb 01, 2008; ... They died by the hundreds, most of them in isolation, many of them poor and elderly, shut away in the homes they had lived in for years. When the disaster struck, several government officials at first tried to deny its magnitude, then shifted toward blaming the victims for not taking care ...
The unlikeliest classics: Theodore Mann's memoir renders Circle in the Square in its golden years.(BOOKS)(Journeys in the Night: Creating a New American Theatre with Circle in the Square: A Memoir )(Book review)
Feb 01, 2008; ... JOURNEYS IN THE NIGHT: CREATING A NEW AWERICAN THEATRE WITH CIRCLE IN THE SQUARE [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] By Theodore Menn. Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, New York City. 418 pp, $34.95 cloth with DVD. Nowadays the most useful way to distinguish between ...
Hit and miss: five new books on how to produce.(BOOKS)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2008; ... THE COMMERCIAL THEATER INSTITUTE GUIDE TO PRODUCING PLAYS AND MUSICALS Edited by Frederick B. Vogel and Ben Hodges, Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, New York City. 288 pp, $19.95 paper. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE BACK STAGE GUIDE TO WORKING IN PEGIONAL ...
Passing the baton: when changes in leadership loon, time and familiarity can smooth the bumps.(STRATEGIES)
Feb 01, 2008; ... THE CHALLENGE: Every four years the U.S. presidential elections are held. What if that happened with artistic directors of theatres? Would there be quadrennial crisis? Imagine: a lame duck managing director! What is it about a shift of power that sends shivers up our spines? Is there a way ...
Hong Kong, China.(GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT)(Theater review)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008; ... HONG KONG ARTS FESTIVAL: Director Gabriel Lee Chung-chuen believes Hong Kong audiences have a lot in common with Americans--for example, a facade of openness that hides conservative attitudes about sex. So in a way, Neil LaBute's sinister The Shape of Things "is already ready for Hong Kong ...
Cairo, Egypt.(GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008; ... CAIRO INTERNATIONAL FORUM FOR CHILDREN'S THEATRE: Manethon Theatre Company--named after an ancient Egyptian historian--switched its focus from adults to younger audiences in 2003 after its artistic director, Mohamed Kareem, saw several outstanding performances for kids while visiting-South ...
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.(GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008; ... INTERNATIONAL THEATRE FESTIVAL FOR DEVELOPMENT (FITD): The organizers of this gathering, Prosper Kompaore and his colleagues at Atelier Theatre Burkinabe, take theatre's potential power very seriously. "It's time to question the idea that any kind of theatre with the goal of raising ...
Phnom Penh and Siem Reap, Cambodia.(GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT)(Brief article)
Feb 01, 2008; ... SPOTLIGHT: AN ASIAN FESTIVAL OF INCLUSIVE ART: "Every Person Is Counted" is the motto/acronym of Epic Arts/Cambodia (an offshoot of a British organization by the same name), which is devoted to not leaving out those who are traditionally regarded as disabled. It's a particular concern for ...