Backstage on Broadway, Sports Fan Abound

NYTimes.com: "WITH “Lombardi,” a surprise hit, and the new revival of “That Championship Season,” sports has an unusually prominent place on the Broadway stage this Super Bowl week. It’s an odd twist since people often presume that sports and theater exist in mutually exclusive universes. Not so, many actors, playwrights and directors insist. “Sports fans are not as pervasive in terms of quantity in the theater world,” said Thomas Sadoski, a co-star of “Other Desert Cities,” now at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. “But we make up for that with the depth of our fanaticism.”