Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Writers Will Benefit From Roundabout Decision to Alter Subsidiary Rights Practice
Playbill.com: "Roundabout Theatre Company announced on March 23 that it will begin a new subsidiary rights practice for living playwrights whose work is seen at the not-for-profit's Off-Broadway home at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre."
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This is an interesting step for Roundabout in the current economic environment. Hopefully it will catch on and encourage playwrights to have their new work produced more often. The article makes an off-handed statement at the end that really bothers me. They say that their black box theater is perfect for riskier pieces that require a "more intimate audience". This notion of avant-guarde or experimental theater requiring an intimate audience is, to me, absurd. Why can't experimental works support larger theaters and larger audiences? Not because they are not created that way, but because producers are not willing to take the risk of using their larger, more prominent theaters for new or experimental works. How are experimental theater and new work going to succeed without the opportunity to be considered equal to the "classics"?
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