592. How to Make the Coolest Show on Broadway
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Hit by Covid, runaway costs, and a zillion streams of competition, serious theater is in serious trouble. A new hit play called *Stereophonic — *the most Tony-nominated play in history — has something to say about that. We speak with the people who make it happen every night. (Part one of a two-part series).)

• SOURCES:

• David Adjmi), author and playwright.

• Sonia Friedman), theater producer and founder of Sonia Friedman Productions.

• John Johnson), theater producer and co-founder of Wagner Johnson Productions.

• Tom Pecinka), actor.

• Sarah Pidgeon), actor.

• RESOURCES:

• Stereophonic), by David Adjmi, Will Butler, and Daniel Aukin (2023).

• Lot Six: A Memoir), by David Adjmi (2020).

• "On the Performing Arts: The Anatomy of Their Economic Problems)," by W. J. Baumol and W. G. Bowen (The American Economic Review, 1965).