Sunday, January 13, 2008

Long Wharf rocks the boat - Entertainment News, Legit News, Media - Variety:

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- A new $50 million Long Wharf Theater in a hip district of downtown New Haven is causing leaders of the 43-year-old institution, one of the oldest in the regional theater movement, to ask: "Who are we?"

With a graying -- and declining -- subscription base familiar to many U.S. regionals, Gordon Edelstein, a.d. of the Tony-winning theater for the past six years, sees part of the answer in the programming of provocative new plays by both emerging and established playwrights.

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