CTG Update

The LA Times posted a new article about the CTG New Works cuts. It features various playwrights who have had relationships with the Taper, including Anna Deveare Smith and John Belluso who ran the Other Voices program, writing short responses about the cuts. They try to offer measured and balanced consideration, desperately hoping that new and better things will rise from the loss. There's the mixed feeling that perhaps forcing multiculturalism by specifically targeting certain minorities wasn't the ideal program anyway, but it is nonetheless a loss and the problem of diversity is by no means resolved. They seem mostly to be mourning the loss of a community of writers from a program that brought them together. It's an interesting and important article and I hope it gets some attention. I'd still like to hear from more playwrights and Brian Freeman, Luis Alfaro, and Chay Yew, the other directors who lost their jobs.