The essential Bartlett Sher; The key questions, says Intiman's ascendant A.D., are: Who's doing it? and what makes it great?(artistic director)(Interview)(Biography)
American Theatre, September, 2005 by Drukman, Steven
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What happens when you give a Grateful Dead-head his own theatre company? The question begs a punch line, but in Bartlett Sher's case it means leading a major institution into smart, serious and often politically charged territory. One of the most gimlet-eyed directors on the current American scene, Sher has headed Seattle's Intiman Theatre since 2001, and recently renewed his contract into 2008.
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He seems both at the peak of his artistry (if his staging of the multi-Tony-earning Light in the Piazza is evidence) and infused with enthusiasm for the field as a whole, a combination that ...
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