Cincy City Council Deletes Theatre Company From Grant

The Cincinnati city council has taken a theatre company’s name off a list of grants. Last summer the company staged a production of Terrence McNally’s “Corpus Christie.” No protesters appeared before City Council during recent discussions about the grant, but a local group — the Coalition for a Just Cincinnati — sent a mass e-mail entitled, ‘Cincinnati City Council Subsidizing Blasphemy.’ In the e-mail, CJC’s leader, Nathaniel Livingston Jr., wrote: ‘This is America, and everyone has a First Amendment right to free speech, even if the speech is offensive. There are, however, consequences to your actions. And there should be no reward for the producers of ‘Corpus Christi’.”