Is New York City part of America? Off-Broadway and the Regional Theater Tony Award

HowlRound: “New York is the capital of no known foreign country,” Saul Bellow once said, a view that New Yorkers might hold as deeply as people in the rest of the United States, but for us it’s a reason to love the city. For them, it seems a reason to hate it—“New York,” shorthand for a host of evils. But, as I realized with a start last week, it’s not just populists, conservatives, and bigots who resent New York. It’s theater people too.