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Welcome to the Age of Anxiety — a confusing time when the performing arts in America, along with many other aspects of life, face a host of perplexing questions that don’t have easy answers:
-- Are we entering a recession, or do the robust job numbers mean we’re heading for a soft landing?
-- Is the pandemic over, or not?
-- Will inflation make tickets too expensive and chip away at disposable incomes?
-- Will the climate continue its increasingly dramatic journey to strange new extremes?
-- How will the earthshaking social changes of the last few years — the #MeToo Movement, Black Lives Matter, increasing political partisanship — alter programming choices, personnel decisions, and the fundamental power structure of cultural institutions?
As the 2022-23 season begins, these questions will play a role in what we see and where we see it.
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