Los Angeles: exit fervently.(FRONT and CENTER)(Gordon Davidson's exit from Los Angeles' theater)
American Theatre, July, 2005 by Kendt, Rob
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We can thank George W. Bush for this, at least: that Gordon Davidson is not going quietly. To cap his 38-year reign as artistic director of the Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, Davidson first mulled staging two classics in repertory. Then he heard the White House pitch to reform Social Security.
"I said, 'This is WMDs all over again,'" Davidson recalls. "You put fear in people's minds that you have a crisis, and then the next line is: 'I can solve it, but you have to follow me.'"
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So Davidson staged the play he'd seen at London's ...
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