Ms. Trapnell, who is continuing to work with the board part-time as it develops a plan to reopen the theater, pointed out that ACT had made a similar decision during its crisis in 2003.
And as staff members at each theater pointed out, raising money to pay the janitor's salary is an entirely different problem from raising money to erect an edifice.
However, it is also an excellent piece of political theater, pointing out the hypocrisy of those that call themselves "pro-life".
Stephen Albert, the principal architect at the Albert Group Architects, which is designing the building that may one day replace the theater, points out that city and state preservation laws have been written specifically to preserve buildings, rather than ideas.
Hence the obvious downside of "Phèdre" from a filmed-theater point of view.
LONG BRANCH New Jersey Repertory Company, Lumia Theater "Release Point," a baseball drama by Gino DiIorio.
LONG BRANCH New Jersey Repertory Company, Lumia Theater "Release Point," baseball drama, by Gino DiIorio.
Both works consciously use the conventions of theater to point out their own artificiality.
RED BANK Count Basie Theater West Point Jazz Knights, celebrating Veterans Day and the theater's 83rd birthday.
Live from the Edge Theater, The Point, 940 Garrison Avenue, at Manida Street, Hunts Point, the Bronx; (718) 542-4139 (Dunning).
Tomorrow at 2 p.m. Live From the Edge Theater, the Point, 940 Garrison Avenue, Hunts Point, the Bronx, (718) 842-5223 (Dunning).
