For the umpteenth time.(letters to the editor)(Letter to the Editor)

American Theatre, March, 2005 by de Acha, Rafael

In Theresa Rebeck's commentary, one can sense and hear a frustrated playwright's voice. I am truly sorry for Rebeck and Sheri Wilner and Ronan Noone and Suzanne Bradbeer and for so many other playwrights who can't seem to be able to get a theatre--any theatre--to commit to doing a second production of one of their plays.

Have their agents please get in touch with us ASAP! At New Theatre, which I founded and have led for the past 19 seasons, a reluctance to do a second production has never been the problem. We have done more than 40 world premieres over the past several years and have averaged two every season. But we have also done countless second or third or umpteenth productions of plays by early and mid-career American playwrights. There are a...

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