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"Rocco Landesman, the colorful theatrical producer and race-track aficionado who brought hits like Big River, Angels in America and The Producers to Broadway, has been nominated as the next chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, the White
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The White House said it has nominated Landesman for the position of chairman at the NEA, a post that was previously held by Dana Gioia. The formal announcement is expected to come Wednesday, according to a report in the New York Times.
Landesman, 61,
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The New York Times is reporting that theatrical producer and race-track aficionado, Rocco Landesman, who brought hits like "Big River," "Angels in America" and "The Producers" to Broadway, has been nominated as the next chairman of the National
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...New York Times is reporting that theatrical producer and race-track aficionado, Rocco Landesman, who brought hits like "Big River," "Angels in America" and "The Producers" to Broadway, has been nominated as the next chairman of the National Endowment for the...
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Broadway World
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Broadway producer Rocco Landesman, guru of the Jujamcyn theater chain, is slated to become the new chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. A New York Times article announcing the appointment is pretty upbeat on the news, with very positive
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Copyright 2009, The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP Online news report may not be published, broadcast or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press.
WASHINGTON — Broadway producer Rocco Landesman
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The New York Times says that President Obama will name Broadway producer Rocco Landesman as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Tony Kushner: "It's potentially the best news the arts community in the United States has had since the birth
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THE Osgood file at the Department of Finance begins with the purchase of a pied-à-terre at the Osborne, the 1883 brownstone apartment building on West 57th Street and Seventh Avenue, diagonally across the street from Carnegie Hall, built a few years
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Mr. Paterson has proposed a 4 percent state tax on commercial theater tickets; if it is approved, an additional 4 percent tax would be automatically imposed by New York City, as well as a 0.375 percent Metropolitan Transportation Authority tax. For a
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Anybody who has paid for theater tickets recently in New York City knows what a big hole they can leave in the family budget. Gov. David Paterson of New York wants to make that hole even deeper with a new theater ticket tax.
Additional commentary,
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The New York Times
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ALBANY There was no flashy choreography as grim-faced Broadway industry leaders pleaded bluntly and plainly with New York legislative budget writers on Tuesday to reject Gov. David A. Paterson’s proposed tax on theater tickets, which would raise prices
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The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/04/theater/04bway.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
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That was Broadway's message to lawmakers on Tuesday as union and theater officials urged them to reject Gov. Paterson's plan to tax ticket sales.
"A show doesn't downsize," Loeb said. "It's dead. That means the lights go off, the workers go home, no
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New York Daily News
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The tale of the twinkly-eyed nanny is suddenly topical - because the father is a banker suspicious of a money-making scheme that's too good to be true, says Harold Evans.
Who'd
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The tale of the twinkly-eyed nanny is suddenly topical - because the father is a banker suspicious of a money-making scheme that's too good to be true, says Harold Evans.
Who'd
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• Hideki Matsui appears to be on the move: According to the Observer's Max Abelson, the Yankees outfielder is the one who plunked down $10.5 million for theater producer Rocco Landesman's three-bedroom penthouse at The Heritage at Trump Place. [NYO,
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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
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New York Observer
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The tale of the twinkly-eyed nanny is suddenly topical - because the father is a banker suspicious of a money-making scheme that's too good to be true, says Harold Evans.
Who'd have thought
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BBC News
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...Theater producer Rocco Landesman and his wife Deborah have sold their penthouse at 240 Riverside Boulevard (otherwise known as The Heritage at Trump Place) for $10.5 million. The couple picked up the three-bedroom apartment with jacuzzi for $4.233 million...
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♦ Theater producer Rocco Landesman and his wife Deborah have sold their penthouse at 240 Riverside Boulevard (otherwise known as The Heritage at Trump Place) for $10.5 million. The couple picked up the three-bedroom apartment with jacuzzi for $4.233
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The ascension of Philip J. Smith and Robert E. Wankel to the top of the Shubert Organization Tuesday night ended a 20-plus-year guessing game about the future of the largest theater-owning enterprise in the nation.
Back in the late 1980s, when Bernard
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...Chicago Tribune is reporting that Broadway theater owner Rocco Landesman is currently leading a bidding group to buy the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field. The Tribune states, " A Chicago real-estate firm has made an offer to buy Wrigley Field separately, because...
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Broadway World
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Everybody's tally ing up their votes, bad-mouthing the competition, howling when the press dismisses their chances of winning.
Here are a couple of snapshots from the land of the lovable lunatics:
Some of the backers of "Gypsy," bitter because
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New York Post
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For anyone interested in the business behind the show, the
Commercial Theater Institute (CTI) will once again offer its annual three-day
intensive training program, "Producing for the Commercial Theatre."
This unique program is designed to help foster
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Broadway World
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IN a parallel universe you could be deciding tonight whether to try to score a hard-to-get ticket to Annette Bening’s play or Spike Lee’s Broadway directorial debut, or to grovel for a spare ticket to Jake Gyllenhaal’s Off Broadway play. Or, in a
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The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/theater/24robe.html?ex=1361509200&en=c5ff9c1006653e47&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
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We recently solicited your questions for Broadway producer Rocco Landesman, and threw in a few of our own as well. Reading his answers below, you can see why he is considered not only one of Broadway’s best producers, but also one of the most astute.
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Freakonomics
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...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 also, I am happy to say, an old friend of mine.) He is president of Jujamcyn Theatres, one of the big three Broadway theater...
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A Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York panel discussion held at The Donnell Library Center, E.53rd Street, New York City, on Wednesday, October 3, 2007. Panel features Clyde Haberman (New York Times), Alison Tocci (Time Out New York), Darren Walker (The Rockefeller Foundation), Rocco Landesman (Jujamcyn Theaters) and Tama Janowitz (author). ... Jane Jacobs New York City new media politics
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In counterpoint to last February's three-venue series of Robert Moses retrospectives, New York City's design mavens are now revisiting Jane Jacobs, whose writings about urban life came to symbolize the opposite of Moses' own approach to planning cities.
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Business Week
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...overlooking the pool. Hall, 58, and Sohmer, who married in 1991, have two sons, David and Tully. When Broadway producer Rocco Landesman ("The Producers," "Angels in America" and "The Wedding Singer") sold his Hampshire House co-op on Manhattan's Central Park...
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Forbes
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...didn’t grab the final apartment: “The last deal was to a beautiful lady from the Upper East Side.” Broadway theater magnate Rocco Landesman, who produced The Producers , has sold his Hampshire House co-op for $3.15 million, according to city records. The Central...
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