UPDATE ON THE LINCOLN CENTER PROJECT

Within 24 hours of announcing a free consulting program for any troubled arts organizations in the country, Michael Kaiser, president of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, received 110 emailed pleas from 31 states.

“We even got one from Iceland,” he says. “Unfortunately, we don’t deal with Iceland.”

Fortunately for Mr. Kaiser, in his spacious aerie of an office on one of the Kennedy Center’s upper floors, he has a large conference table: The printed emails, many of them in piles, cover every square inch of its surface. Read more.