He grew up here in Jos, which maintained a movie theater into the mid 80s.
Mr. Marcé said the tax savings would enable his theater to maintain a full season, rather than cut back to two or three plays.
With only two actors and a bare-bones set, Mr. Richards said he was able to maintain a low weekly nut for "Life in the Theater".
They tried to maintain a schedule uptown, but the original energy dissipated; an offshoot, the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater, survives on East 54th Street.
The theater maintains a full chorus, solo singers and dancers, a corps de ballet, designers, directors and craftsmen, and a single hardworking orchestra that plays at ballets and operas alike, often performing from hand-copied scores.
The space has been a bright spot for the Garde, a nonprofit group charged with maintaining a cavernous former movie theater in the same building as the Oasis Room.
"It is one thing to detain those captured on the surrounding battlefield at a place like Bagram, which respondents correctly maintain is in a theater of war," the judge wrote.
His solution is a return to the repertory model, with theaters maintaining a resident company of performers and giving them steady work.
Many performers are Soviet-trained and Ms. Sergelen, the director, is eager to maintain her theater as a bastion of classical repertory and style out on the steppe.
If you want to know how to wring the most emotional truth from a theater song while maintaining a measure of formality, this is how it's done.
