The Still Shrinking American Stage by Garrett Eisler

Terry Teachout reflects on the latest TCG list of Top Ten Plays Produced in American nonprofit theatres: it's easy to forget that the latter-day dominance of the small-cast play is a fairly recent development in theatrical history. Large casts used to be the rule, not the exception. Indeed, most of the best-known American plays of the 20th century called for performing forces that would now be seen by penny-pin…

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