The Brooklyn Rail

Our Own New Deal: Planting Roots for American Theater

First things first: the talent must move. We must attract it by offering a drive and sense of audacity that is not true of the theater they have known…If they don’t like what we have done, let them create their own theaters— there are places all over the country ripe for them. But let them not wait for the system to accommodate them when, after making their rounds, they are already deformed.