Citi Performing Arts Center
Really? The Wang Foundation gave $1 million to the venue that's giving us Steely Dan?
By adamg - 6/11/09 - 9:05 pmThomas Garvey is aghast:
... Enough money to put the North Shore Music Theatre and the Foothills back in business. With enough left over to fund most of Boston Secession's next project, and the Nora's challenge campaign, and perhaps some new work by Boston Ballet, or Handel and Haydn, or the Merrimack Rep - with a little spare change to keep Imaginary Beasts and Mill 6 in business, too. But instead all that money is going down the drain at CitiCenter, home of Josiah Spaulding, Jr., and Steely Dan, and The Color Purple. Really, the mind boggles; can't even Steely Dan and Oprah Winfrey pay Spaulding's bills these days? ...
Madison Square Garden Lite
By adamg - 8/7/08 - 8:00 amThe Center Formerly Known as the Wang to become Boston branch of Madison Square Garden, only without those annoying Knicks games.
First Night to become First Half Hour?
By adamg - 8/10/07 - 10:52 amThe Globe reports:
The Citi Performing Arts Center has launched talks with First Night, which organizes Boston's popular New Year's celebration, and other local arts and culture groups with the aim of merging or partnering with them.
