National Theater of New York

I don't want to come across as a brash Brit telling you guys what to do, there is only one way to suck eggs? Right!

When Skylight and A Curious Incident won the Tony last season there was talk of New York getting a subsidised National Theatre. It's possible that British subsidised theatre could pull off the same feat again with A View From The Bridge and King Charles III, not saying it will, but if it does win the Tony the argument will intensify.

i have been to the National Theatre in Britain many time and they do about 30 shows a year, mainly plays, a lot of the time they're not great, but sometimes you see something that is awesome. If New York had one, I imagine they so more musical as this is more of an American staple.

i think it would be great if New York gained Theatre of excellence and London and New York could possible do co-productions.

Anyone interested in what the National Theatre artistic programme is, I've included a link to whats on at the moment.

http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/whats-on

i think it would be a great place to do shows like Tennessee Williams or Eugene O'Neil classics to Sondheim musicals as they're not produced on Broadway anymore.

i am in New York on Tuesday to see some great shows for 2 weeks and if you did have a National Theatre, it would make my choice of New York theatre shows harder, but that is a great problem to have.

Aside from the obvious problem of New York being a state of a country.. I would rather see a UK National Theatre equivalent doing NEW productions - taking on new artistes, new ORIGINAL works.. rather than revivals, revivals. LCT and Roundabout does enough of revivals.

here was talk of New York getting a subsidised National Theatre.

Where was that talk? Could you cite examples?

Ergo not produced on Broadway anymore!! Why, Gypsy alone...!

No.