Although she grew up in a theatrical family (dad was a director and founder of the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester, mom's an actor) the British director Marianne Elliott reportedly hated theater as a kid. And perhaps that's why she's able to be so daring about upending the way shows get made.Elliott's production of War Horse, which used life-sized puppets to tell the tale of a boy and his beloved horse trying to…
SOURCE: Broadway & Me at 08:10AM on October 18, 2014