Plays Vie for Scarce Space in Broadway Theaters

NYTimes.com: AFTER opening in November to some of the best reviews of the theater season, the Off Broadway production of “The Orphans’ Home Cycle” seemed on a fast track for Broadway. Three of New York’s most prominent play producers began trying to raise $2.5 million to move the show, even though its length (nine hours, broken into three parts) and lack of star performers made it an iffy investment for commercial Broadway. But the producers thought the show, the final opus of the acclaimed writer Horton Foote, had a good shot at Tony Awards — which go only to Broadway productions — and they believed that a wide audience would want to see the work, given the huge demand for tickets at its 160-seat Off Broadway house.