Contracts were signed, boldly modern seasons programmed at City Opera.
The festival will have world premieres, of which Mr. Barrett has programmed at least two a year.
And since its reincarnation in 1997, the new work programmed at the Bankside venue has all been by men.
Girls creator Lena Dunham proved the biggest draw, with a lengthy queue rivalled only by the one for Edward Snowden, whose talk was programmed at the same time.
Production in Los Angeles will start in September and Smith said the aim was for it to be programmed at the Sundance festival next year.
I spent four years passing programs at the Boston Symphony during Munch's last years there, and I remember his Berlioz -- it seemed he programmed at least two major works a season -- with deep affection.
Because of the complexity of writing, casting, rehearsing and publicising a play, most playhouses are programmed at least a year in advance: the Royal Court theatre, for example, announced last Friday its 2014-15 productions.
Though Orr does end with an excellent question: "If you get programmed at the National Theatre, what's next [for a young, emerging company]?" Less contentious is Dan Baker's blog about interactive theatre.
Having opted for vacuous romantic agony in Madame de Sade at Wyndhams, he has now programmed at his home base this inert mid-1970s Athol Fugard play suffused with self-flagellating guilt.
The play was finally picked up by a young director at the Royal Shakespeare Company, Ron Daniels, and programmed at the Other Place, a small tin hut in the middle of rural Warwickshire.
Carter was just getting to the interview room to say he'd been "programmed" at North Carolina to be a team player but, "Like Charles said, I had to bring it".
