Theatrical Families Aren’t All Up on the Stage

NYTimes.com: "THAT the theater community functions as one big extended family is a cliché that might have been overheard four centuries ago at the Mermaid Tavern in London. Neither is it news that there are countless biological families within that larger family; audiences have watched generations of Barrymores, O’Neills, Rodgerses and Hammersteins pass through Shubert Alley. But the theater’s family businesses stretch well beyond those who put on the shows. Name a trade tangentially related to the stage, and you can find its version of the Booth clan. Here are a few."