St. Louis-born Rocco Landesman is coming home to the Central Time Zone. The recently confirmed Director of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) smeared Peoria theater, and by extension all small-town theater, in a pre-confirmation interview with New York…
When Rocco Landesman was appointed director of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), I asked rhetorically if we couldn’t do better than have a commercial producer of Broadway musicals be our national arts’ czar, however limited a job that is considering its…
Opera Theatre of St. Louis and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra are among the local arts groups which will each receive $50,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The grants are part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and…
Broadway producer Rocco Landesman, scion of a family once prominent in St. Louis’ arty Gaslight Square scene, has been nominated to chair the National Endowment for the Arts, according to the Associated Press.
Landesman, 61, is known for bringing such hits as…
The Los Angeles Times asked a diverse group of arts leaders — including St. Louis Symphony Orchestra music director David Robertson — how they’d run the National Endowment for the Arts if they found themselves in charge. You can see…
