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A journalist, or a sex symbol?

Male sex abuse and female naiveté

What should women do?

This is the controversial column on female responses to male sex abuse, for which I later apologized.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 4 minute read
Rozin: How to change the world?

Producers vs. critics: Two questions

What's it all about, theater folks?

Two questions I didn't have time to ask the theater producers at Broad Street Review's symposium on theater critics really boil down to one: Why, ultimately, do you do what you do?
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 3 minute read
Yannick of the big shoulders: Why is this man smiling?

The Orchestra's vanishing audience

A financial crisis, or a marketing crisis?

The Philadelphia Orchestra has lost 40% of its audience since Riccardo Muti departed. That statistic begs a fundamental question: What's the point of balancing your books if you can't sell your product?
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 3 minute read
Dad (second row, center) and friends at International House, c. 1990: His fountain of youth.

Doing good through dance: My father's story

He found his niche, through dance

Rebecca Davis and Ashley Fargnoli, two 20-something dance activists from Philadelphia, head for the world's hot spots armed with choreography. My dad did something similar nearly half a century ago, when he quit the rat race to start a dance company, for his benefit and the world's.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 4 minute read
Timoney was everywhere in the '90s, or so it seemed.

Symbols and the Orchestra: Three examples from the "90s

What Police Chief Timoney understood (and the Philadelphia Orchestra doesn't)

Before you dismiss the value of symbols, consider their use at three institutions: the Philadelphia Police Department, the Philadelphia School District and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 4 minute read
Gilda Radner: Included in the price of admission.

Gentiles and the new American Jewish History Museum

But is it good for the gentiles?

What is a museum of American Jewish history doing on Independence Mall, when there's no museum there for Brits, Irish, Germans or African-Americans? There's actually a good answer to that question.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 5 minute read
A dowager taught the young Stokowski (above) something about contractual relationships.

The Orchestra's bankruptcy and the Pew connection

The Orchestra's failure and the elephant in the room

What's more dismaying— a Philadelphia Orchestra board that abdicates its responsibility to its creditors, or a major arts funder that shrinks from making artistic judgments?
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 8 minute read
Is this woman strangling, or was that just a metaphor?

"Strangled' by government regulation

Ayn Rand lives!

The Philadelphia entrepreneur Joan Carter, recently inducted as the first woman president of the Union League, is a remarkable business success story. But she insists that she and her husband are “choking” on government regulation. Where have I heard this complaint before?
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 5 minute read
Ted Leisenring stood up to John L. Lewis but couldn't say no to his ancestors.

The coal baron who wouldn't sell out

Requiem for a coal baron

Most coal barons sell out after a generation or so and retire to Fifth Avenue or Palm Beach, where they'll never have to think about coal again. Ted Leisenring, who died this month, refused to quit. Instead he spent half a century manning the front lines of a titanic human struggle to extract coal from the ground and deliver it to a relentlessly capricious and ungrateful market.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 7 minute read
David Mackay (foreground), Ian Bedford in 'Superior Donuts': Did the critic speak too soon?

The theatergoer who reviewed a "preview'

Crime and punishment

Marshall Ledger was a great editor for many years. But this month he pushed the envelope too far— forcing Philadelphia's no-nonsense theater community to take prompt and decisive action.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Editorials 4 minute read