Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: It drives Diane Paulus nuts, seeing people asleep in their theater seats. Not because she considers it a breach of playgoing etiquette. No, the torture for this Tony-winning director is the possibility that what's happening onstage is of such marginal interest that it works on some portion of the audience as a sedative.
"You never see a person sleeping at a sporting event!" she said the other day, as she munched on a cheeseburger in a Times Square restaurant. "I mean, what are we doing wrong if people feel more engaged at home with their laptops?"
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