by Lionel Bascom — March 29th, 2007 — 1 comment
A theater company that had been expected to make the Ground Zero Arts Center its home, won’t have an opening night in that Lower Manhattan venue.
Deputy Mayor Daniel Doctoroff says the Signature Theater Company will not be included as one of the companies housed at the arts center. Doctoroff said the details involved included costs and complicated logistics of having Signature and the Joyce Theater dance company share the space. The deputy mayor said Signature was dropped from the plans because having two groups share this same confined space just became too difficult.
The city is hoping to move Signature to nearby Fiterman Hall at 30 West Broadway just across from 7 World Trade Center. It is part of the Borough of Manhattan Community College, heavily damaged by falling debris on 9/11.
8:42 PM in Uncategorized, The Construction, World Trade Center, Ground Zero, Related Stories, Freedom Tower News, Politics
Having one theatre company housed in the World Trade Center in New York City is absurd. Yes, this new center should deliver dramatic performances, but the opportunity exists for a worldwide appreciation of all the arts, representative of music, theatre, dance, poetry, prose, sculpture, visual art forms, and futuristic venues of expression. To maintain the beauty of creativity is to open one’s mind to possibility. To maintain the beauty of New York is to open the minds of the world to creativity.
Jeanne · March 29th, 2007 at 10:21 pm