Edith Honan
By Edith Honan
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Fast Forward Creditor Jumpstarts Bid for New York’s ‘People’s Opera’
(Reuters) — A creditor who hopes to rescue the bankrupt New York City Opera filed an objection on Monday to delays in consideration of his bid and called for an independent trustee to be put in charge. Businessman Gene Kaufman made an undisclosed offer six months ago to buy “the people’s opera” and salvage the…
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The Schmooze ‘The Weiner Monologues’ Is Now a Play
(Reuters) — Anthony Weiner, the New York City mayoral candidate undone by a sexting scandal, stands in a schoolyard — the butt of his classmates’ jokes. A chorus of reporters breaks out into a sexually charged dance number during a Weiner press conference. A new play about the misbegotten campaign of Weiner, the former Congressman…
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