Monday, August 29, 2011
A No. 2 Theater Company Grabs the State Spotlight
NYTimes.com: For most of the last few decades, when national theater observers talked about Texas, the conversation focused on just one theater: the Alley, in Houston. It regularly presented premieres of major works, like Horton Foote’s “The Carpetbagger’s Children,” the musical “Jekyll & Hyde” and Tennessee Williams’s posthumously discovered “Not About Nightingales.”
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A little competition is never a bad thing. Battling for the Tony is a good thing for both communities. The competition increases the desire to put on a good show which in turn increases community investment into the theatre. That is good for everyone.
its nice that Texas has a big enough community to support two potential tony award winning companies. as much as they compete they also can also play off of each other to get more people involved in theater.
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