Editor's note.

It happens every January. Because American Theatre's annual Approaches to Theatre Training issue attracts a greater volume of advertising than any other single issue, more editorial material is required as well to fill out the magazine's swelling page count. You the reader get more column inches of text--more articles, longer articles--than at any other time of year. This is the issue you may want to keep on the nightstand for long-term perusal.

Above and beyond our three-part Special Section devoted to management training (you'll find it introduced on page 39), the articles ...