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National Endowment for the Arts chairman to visit Madison

When Rocco Landesman was an English major at UW-Madison in the late 1960s, he starred in Shakespeare?s “Richard II” and worked as the fine arts editor for the Daily Cardinal. On Tuesday, he?ll return to Madison ? now as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. The Tony-winning Broadway producer, investor and co-owner of the one-time Kenosha Twins minor league baseball team will be part of an afternoon panel at Goodman Community Center discussing how Madison can better leverage the arts for economic development.