Random notes: December 6, 2012.

Dave Brubeck obits: NYT. LAT. A/V Club.

The demise of “The Anarchist” raises questions about the theater business. Did the lead producers’ devotion to Mr. Mamet — and the hope of a lucrative “Glengarry” revival — mean staging a new work that wasn’t right, or ready, for Broadway? Should playwrights direct their own work, as Mr. Mamet did with “The Anarchist” and his last new drama on Broadway, “Race”?

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