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Ethics Hero: Meat Loaf

His voice may have diminished greatly over the years, but Meat Loaf, always more ham than hamburger, truly loves performing, and it shows. And his determination to give an audience everything it paid...

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The Anti-Smoking Zealots Go To A Show

Smoking on stage is sometimes necessary, but a small and vocal group of zealots don't want to hear it---or see it, or smell it. Continue reading →

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Now THIS Is An Unprofessional Actor

Is this the most unethical theatrical performance ever? Continue reading →

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In England, Art Designed To Show The Ugliness Of Racism Exposes The Ugliness...

Self-righteous fools should not be permitted to dictate what are proper subjects, themes or messages of art. Continue reading →

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The Wall Street Journal’s Uncultured Culture Critic

WSJ culture critic Joanna Kaufman reveals herself as lazy, arrogant, disrespectful of artists, and most crippling of all, to be afflicted by the attention span of the average Twitter addict. Continue...

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The Destructive, Useful, Unethical Presumption of Bigotry, Part 2: The Oscar...

The significance of the lack of blacks among the Oscar acting nominations is exactly the opposite of how it is being represented. Continue reading →

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KABOOM! The Dumbest, Most Unethical Broadway Audience Member Ever

And yet there are people who oppose capital punishment.... Continue reading →

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I Can’t Decide Which Is Worse, That “Hamilton” Is So Greedy, Or That They...

    Producers of the smash hit Broadway musical “Hamilton,” soon to sweep the Tonys in historic fashion, have raised the top premium seat price to a record-obliterating $849. The previous high for...

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Opening The Door, Tit-For-Tat, And The Drunk In The “Hamilton” Audience

Those advocating that this kind of audience abuse become accepted need to pay attention. Theater cannot survive these proposed rules. What the drunken audience member did was wrong, but the cast was...

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Reflections On My Final Visit To “The Greatest Show On Earth”

Traditions and institutions that we assume are strong and will last forever can vanish, casualties of random, unrelated factors, changes in the culture elsewhere, apathy, bad decisions, bad luck, and...

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Give My Regards To Broadway

The retreat of live professional theater on the highest level into the remote, elitist niches now occupied by symphony orchestras, opera companies and ballet will leave a large void in the culture, as...

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Ethics Poll: How Bad Does A Theatrical Performance Have To Be To Ethically...

I know a LOT about this topic...

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Here Is How Free Expression Is Valued In Those Wonderful English-Speaking...

Looks like the Brits took the lesson of countryman George Orwell's "1984" the wrong way...

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