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Article: Big names, arts groups push for a national theater.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- September 17, 2003
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Byline: Michael Phillips
A national theater _ a crazy notion, no? In a country this size? We can barely get the dominant political party to back national arts funding, let alone Amtrak, let alone functional public schools.
With those apples, who could justify an orange like a national theater?
Yet proposals for oranges keep coming. Two weeks ago the latest national theater pitch hit the news. With endorsements from playwright Arthur Miller, director/producer Harold Prince and Meryl Streep, the toast of all known mediums, ambitious plans for an American National Theater _ or ANT _ were submitted to the Lower Manhattan Development Corp., ...