The Little Theatre has been a successful and integral part of downtown Rochester since 1982 — long enough for its co-founder, Bill Coppard, to have made a number of observations about issues facing the community. He’s had no qualms over the years about sharing his informed opinions and ideas for solutions with those in the […]
Bill Coppard
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Little Theatre, big changes
I started scooping popcorn at the Little Theatre in the fall of 1994, and my first encounter with Bill Coppard was completely underwhelming. The whisperings I had heard about the cofounder of the Little suddenly made sense: crabby, humorless, blunt. But he was running one of the most profitable arthouse theaters in the United States, […]
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The right to fight cancer
“Health is the last front in the civil rights movement,” says Regina Bean. When Bean found a small lump in her breast at age 20, she went to the doctor. She was assured it was a harmless cyst. In the summer of 2002, Bean was diagnosed with breast cancer and her “harmless” tumor was the […]
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Transit center problems, golf pollution, Republican budgets
