Andre Bishop will retire from Lincoln Center Theater in June 2025 — Page 2

I think he’s done wonderful work. To me, bringing in Piazza was putting LCT on the map, to me. Granted I didn’t live in the city then but as an avid theater lover it put the theater, the space, and Lincoln Center as a forefront for high quality theater. So he clearly did something right. Under him we have their smaller space, etc. I don’t give him fault for Sher’s diminishing returns. But Mockingbird has proven to be a recent success.

UWS10023 said: "It is such a shame that the main stage is going to be dark for the next 6 months."

It's still possible that a rental goes in there, especially if it's a one-person show or holiday concert.

I'd love to see LCT's facility get a facelift under its new leadership. The lobby layouts are kind of nightmarish (especially for getting to the Newhouse), and it seems like there's a lot of wasted lobby space –– including the lockers. While they're at it maybe decrease the number of rows to help with legroom... I don't think it would need anything near the scale of the David Geffen Hall reno.

ErmengardeStopSniveling said: "JasonC3 said: "UWS10023 said: "I find the AARP comments to be a bit rude. There are a lot of brilliant people who are working in the theatre at a ripe old age."

Agree. For me it is a bit less about the age of the person and more about their connection to current tastes and audience preferences, as well as their overall capabilities for the job they have to do."

Correct. We've seen innumerable people do brilliant things over the age of 70, but this is a conversation about bringing new, fresh blood and different perspectives into an organization that has been run by the same person for 33 of its 40 years and has had diminishing returns in the past several years (artistically and financially)."

You often seem to need to be right or get one of the last words in on a subject. I know what the conversation was about, but it had veered into criticism solely based on age ... the single point to which I responded.

Updated On: 9/26/23 at 04:01 PM

Bishop has been the only successful AD the theater at Lincoln Center has ever had. The facility was considered to be a failure until his tenure. That doesn't mean one has to like his taste or his work but his retirement is a big deal at a precarious time not just for Lincoln Center but for all the large scale civic theaters conceived of and built in the 1960's.

Updated On: 12/10/23 at 12:15 PM

Yes, you are right Mosher’s relatively short term as AD did much to make Lincoln Center successful for the first time.

Whoever takes over at Lincoln Center needs to be a musical theatre person. I hope that we get LCT to produce more new musicals as well as big revivals of the classics.

Broadway Flash said: "Whoever takes over at Lincoln Center needs to be a musical theatre person. I hope that we get LCT to producemore new musicals as well as big revivals of the classics."

Yes, the output of new works (plays & musicals) needs to both improve and increase. It hasn't been all bad, just incredibly uneven and it's time for change. Excited to see who takes over and how much leeway they'll have to make changes.

This is the biggest changing of the guard that any major New York theatre has seen in a long time.

They have a new:

• Artistic Director
• Managing Director
• Producer (a new role)
• LCT3 Artistic Director (who is also a Producer for the organization at large)
• Head of Marketing
• musical theatre producer Ira Weitzman has left
• casting director Daniel Swee has left
• The in-house PR team has been eliminated in favor of an outside agency (DKC/O&M)
• Bartlett Sher and Lileana Blain-Cruz were previously the Resident Directors. Now, Bart is the newly-created "Executive Producer", and Lileana is an "artist in residence"

(some of these people have been shadowing or overlapped a bit with the prior leadership)

There'll be growing pains. This exact team might not be in place a year from now. But it's kind of exciting to see this type of change. I wish them all the best.

I thought Andre Bishop went out on a high note with FLOYD COLLINS, and that's a very nice retrospective piece.

Updated On: 7/1/25 at 08:21 PM