Catch Me If You Can't

Backstage: Sometimes what appears at first to be an isolated incident can turn out to have national implications. For example, earlier this month the New York state inspector general published a 127-page report alleging that the artistic director of the New York State Theatre Institute, a 36-year-old not-for-profit children's theater located in Troy, N.Y., committed such misdoings as nepotism and personal enrichment.