Broadway plays the market

Variety: "With a bumper crop of nontuners crowding out the handful of new musicals so far this season, straight-play devotees could savor the resurgence of a form that had long been eclipsed on the commercial landscape by big-budget song-and-dance. But the optimism came coupled with concerns that all those plays -- 15 since September, vs. four tuners -- would prove too much for the market to bear."