But as someone who travels relatively frequently between New York and London, I remain struck by differing attitudes in the two theater capitals toward this very topic.
With $1.5 million from the City of New Brunswick and hundreds of thousands more in corporate and private donations, building the new $4 million theater marched toward completion in 1991.
The city paid off the $550,000 lien and the partners agreed to give the theater $100,000 toward the mortgage after the project is completed.
Over the last year Mr. Vilar has given the Maryinsky Theater $14 million toward new productions of opera and ballet as well as $15 million for annual seasons at the Kennedy Center in Washington, to begin next February.
"These hearings are not really hearings, they are political theater oriented toward taking away the right for women to access abortion in this country," Dawn Laguens, executive vice president of Planned Parenthood, said in an interview.
In this city of about a million people, where highways lined with steakhouses and multiscreen theaters streak toward new hillside housing developments, there is confidence that Querétaro's good run is just beginning.
But he gravitated toward theater anyway.
"Theater turned me toward my life in a way that was quite unexpected.
Summer instruction, starting July 9, features both a Musical Theater Factory, geared toward producing a show, and the workshops.
