So the playhouse is reviewed as one identity and funded as another?
So, just as suddenly, Playhouse 91 has a "no vacancy" sign up, leaving Mr. Lane and Mr. Morehouse's effort homeless.
But the Cape Playhouse, so far, has not altered its schedule of short runs with minimal time between shows.
"Man of La Mancha" has, of course, become a staple of the bus and truck tour, the dinner theater and the community playhouse, so no matter who the star is, people may feel they can see it near home.
And so the venerable playhouse opens its 59th season Saturday with Judy Carmichael, the stride pianist, in a solo concert, and follows up next Sunday with "Hot Topics: The East Hampton Airport," a panel discussion moderated by Paul Goldberger, architecture critic of The New York Times.
He drew the new part of the house, which is about 540 square feet and has a generous eat-in kitchen downstairs and a bedroom for Jack upstairs, with canted angles as animated as those in Pee-wee's Playhouse, so it would match the "settled" original.
Ms. Woodward, who has lived with Mr. Newman in Westport since 1961, said that "Anastasia" was the first play she saw at Westport when she was "a very young actress" and that the "wonderful tradition" of the playhouse, "so important to all of us," must be preserved.
The show is squeezed into the Soho Playhouse, so much of the excellent direction by Charlie Polinger is lost here.
Now the next step is Des McAnuff, artistic director of the La Jolla Playhouse, so when things got rolling we went there for four weeks to see how good the possibilities were and wound up running for four months and then it was off to Broadway.
You should have a light in the playhouse so you can see each other and don't get hurt.
Luckily, in box-office terms the issue is academic: both The Real Thing and Constellations are limited runs in not-for-profit playhouses, so they are free from the commercial pressures that can make or break many a rival Broadway show.
