tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post8202042969041097579..comments2024-01-07T06:59:04.212-05:00Comments on The Playgoer: Not Ready for PrimetimePlaygoerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02994724588504353485noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post-8555564261586641282010-05-26T11:19:26.824-04:002010-05-26T11:19:26.824-04:00Isn't this a call to the independent theaters ...Isn't this a call to the independent theaters through-out the 5 boroughs to take up the mantel of experimentation, and just let Off Broadway be the new Broadway-lite (less filling and half-the calories)?<br /><br />As Off Broadway companies take up Broadway houses, and the old commerical OB houses are locked up with tourist, museum pieces like Stomp, Blue Man, Fantastics, Perfect Crime, Futz Bruta (sic), The Bodies, lol, etc., today's Off is really the 99-seat theaters that those of us who live here actually attend. <br /><br />Just waiting for the interlopers to displace me from these seats like they did my apartment.RLewisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post-3649860967236157412010-05-25T09:53:43.680-04:002010-05-25T09:53:43.680-04:00I feel like I could have read this paragraph at an...I feel like I could have read this paragraph at any time since 1987 when I started seeing theatre in New York on a regular basis. For 30 years, enthusiasts bemoan the dearth of "experimental theatre." At the same time, some critics in positions of power take every opportunity to trash anything unconventional (Frank Rich? Call on line 1).<br /><br />So what is the answer? Government subsidies? Corporate sponsorship? Patronage? Feingold has the correct diagnosis. But the disease has been rampant for three decades or more.stax920https://www.blogger.com/profile/02962898449134338638noreply@blogger.com