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It still needs to be grossing substantially more weekly in order to recoup in the next several years. That is its major hurdle now: a lot of debt and a high running cost.  

I do think there is a general trend in regards to female directors to overemphasize their failures and attribute their successes to others. I don't think it's necessarily a conscious or deliberate choice, but I do think there is an unconscious bias given the fact that directing has been extremely male-dominated until fairly recently.  There is a conservative (small c, not political) streak amongst theatre fans that results in wariness toward breaks with tradition and convention.&

EDSOSLO858 said: "Kad said: "The discussion on the board has been far more respectful and thoughtful to the material than Mark Strong's book, which treats it like a joke."

*Danny* Strong"

Oops, yes, thank you!

I, like a lot of people in NYC, was introduced to Lear's work with her production of The Good Person of Szechwan starring Taylor Mac in 2013 for the (sadly now defunct) Foundry Theatre. It remains the best production of a Brecht play I've seen in NYC. It transferred to the Public and is presumably what led to her leading Public Works, the several first seasons of which were incredible works of artistic community engagement and true delights. 

She has certainly had her shar

The discussion on the board has been far more respectful and thoughtful to the material than Mark Strong's book, which treats it like a joke. 

Yes, I'm on a laptop presently and the alignment has been randomly becoming this:

Neither Luker nor the production were nominated for many awards at all. It just wasn't well-received and it was overshadowed in a season that also had Cabaret, Ragtime, The Lion King, and even Side Show. 

LCT apparently has a new artist doing their key art. It’s very striking! 

inception said: "I keep getting ads for this show on Instagram even though I'm on the West Coast. It says something like strictly limited 8 week run. I might be tempted if it extends & runs longer. But I wonder how good their ticket sales actually are?"

It was initially 8 weeks but is now running through Sept 7. 

Paywalled.

The issue at the dress rehearsal (which was played to an almost entirely full house, all 3 levels of seating aside from the front center orchestra area cleared for the creatives) wasn't that Porter was holding a binder, it was that he was largely looking down and reading from it the entire time. He will obviously get better with it with time, but there was a startling lack of familiarity with the text even under the constraints of the process and that will hold him back even

AC126748 said: "I read an interview with Debbie Gravitte on TheaterMania that said her son Sam Gravitte was appearing in this show. I don’t see him on the website cast list. What role is he playing, or is he an understudy?"

He's currently in A Walk on the Moon at the Pels, not in this. 

I usually have poor recollection of celebrity sightings, but sitting behind the voluminous red hair of Bernadette Peters at a performance of the John Tiffany Glass Menagerie definitely sticks in my memory. 

Pinkins is one the MVPs of the production and makes an absolute meal out of Jacqueline, but it is nevertheless a pretty small role. 
 

McElroy is fine. He gets some laughs and to show off his body, but his role is even smaller than Pinkins’ with probably less than ten lines in total.

Yes, the fact that Encores can swing from something like The Wild Party, which was essentially a fully-staged, largely realized production, straight to La Cage, which is not at that level, is kind of an issue for audience expectations. 

The critics have been pretty positive for them both (Porter’s vocals aside) so I don’t see why they’d call out. 

John Adams said: "Scarywarhol said: "I think Encores! would do well to strip back to music stands and do an expectation readjustment after next season because the most unfortunate thing here is the desire to present a fully-cooked "concept" revival in a very undercooked setting."

I wholeheartedly agree.

When an overabundance of information - i.e., "a fully-cooked 'concept'"is presented, the viewers' ima