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Who Thinks It's OK To 'Improve' Playwrights' Work? by Howard Sherman

Asolo Repertory Theatre in Sarasota, Florida is back in rehearsal with their production of Brian Friel's Philadelphia, Here I Come!, to restore the script as the fine Irish dramatist wrote it. Their production, which should have been in performance now, had eliminated characters and removed intermissions, among other "improvements." Frankly, they're lucky to even have a second shot at it. They could have lost the rig…

SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 12:13PM on January 22, 2014

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