People complain that the theater audience is too old. I suspect the main reason, other than high ticket prices, is that the plays are too new. Broadway, admittedly, prefers pre-sold items from outdated 10-best lists, but it needs to dress even these in "new" gimmickry—new "darker" (yawn) approaches, ruinous new "adaptations." While Broadway's "new" musicals mostly rehash old songwriters' catalogs, its old ones are invariably "revisals." Only rarely does uptown theater convey enough genuine love for an old work to empower a... More >>>