All the World on Stage In One Neighborhood? 2014 Theater: Village Festival
By Jonathan Mandell. "I want to reinvigorate the idea of this neighborhood being a destination for theater," David Van Asselt, artistic director of Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, told me last year, explaining why he was launching the first annual Theater: Village Festival with three other Greenwich Village theaters"Axis, Cherry Lane, and New Ohio. To Van Asselt, "theater is the Village," thus the colon in the festi…