“Now, this little-known provision in the tax code, known as a like-kind exchange, has become a popular tactic for a new niche of investors: buyers of high-end art who want to put off – and sometimes completely avoid – federal taxes when upgrading their Diebenkorns for Rothkos.”
Alessandra Ferri is Still Dancing Lead Roles At 52
“Only a handful of ballerinas have danced into their 50s, and … Ferri said she hoped to blaze a trail for older dancers but suggested that the over-40s face age discrimination in the ballet world. Younger choreographers ‘are unable to see that you are unique and to enjoy that fact. Some of them hardly even look at you in the rehearsal studio.'”
To Beam Or Not To Beam? How Live Broadcasts Are Changing Regional And Touring Theatre
Do screenings of stage productions from London steal audiences from local theatre or expand them? Nobody can agree on the answer. (Yet.)
25 Years Of Playing Mayor LaGuardia Onstage
When Tony LoBianco starred in a one-man show about New York City’s 99th mayor on Broadway in 1989, the production closed after 12 performances. Then the actor started rewriting the script, kept at it, and now has spent a quarter-century taking the piece, now titled The Little Flower, everywhere from Manhattan to Moscow to Milan.