Across town at the Royal Court, the primary theater for new writing has got its new season off to a scarcely less contentious start.
Yigal Molad Hayo, the associate director of the Jerusalem Cinematheque, the primary theater where the festival is held, told The Jerusalem Post that Ms. Ryan's representatives cited a scheduling conflict.
Casey Childs, the founder of Primary Stages theater, described Mr. Foote's body of work by noting his "ability to find the miracle in the everyday, the gift of extracting the riches from the commonplace".
The Youngstown Playhouse, Mahoning County's primary community theater, has served the area for more than 80 years, despite intermittent financial problems.
"The Stendhal Syndrome," directed by Leonard Foglia, will inaugurate the new home of Primary Stages, 59E59 Theaters, on East 59th Street.
The delay is also threatening to undercut one of the primary benefits for theaters — the ability to deliver an experience that consumers cannot replicate at home.
James Nicola, artistic director of New York Theater Workshop, where "Peter and the Starcatcher" was also developed, said that the nominations were a happy byproduct of his and other nonprofit theaters' primary mission.
The show, directed by Michael Morris and starring Marian Seldes and Nathan Lane, above, was to close on Sept. 18 at Primary Stages' 59E59 Theaters on East 59th Street, and will now run through Oct. 2. Performances of the play began last month, and its official opening night was Thursday.
Robert Brustein, artistic director of the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass., said Chicago had become "the city that's of primary interest to theater people in New York".
