Jana J. Monji: “A Director’s Playhouse”
Nice piece on Boston Court in Pasadena Weekly:
"Unlike many small theaters, Boston Court doesn’t have a resident acting company. Describing their rationale, Michetti commented, 'We did make a decision early on that we were not going to have a resident acting company for a number of reasons. For a lot of theaters, that is their infrastructure and the actors are their primary asset.' Yet that brings certain challenges — 'You have to tailor the choices of material to the actors you have: their types, their strengths and their weaknesses. It really limits the kind of productions you can select.'
Kubzansky added, 'There would be no way for us to retain a company vast enough that we could both showcase Julia Cho’s ‘The Winchester House’ and Suzan Lori Parks’ ‘The America Play’ and Jason Grote’s ‘1001.’' Those plays addressed the East Asian, the African-American and the Middle Eastern communities respectively."
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"Unlike many small theaters, Boston Court doesn’t have a resident acting company. Describing their rationale, Michetti commented, 'We did make a decision early on that we were not going to have a resident acting company for a number of reasons. For a lot of theaters, that is their infrastructure and the actors are their primary asset.' Yet that brings certain challenges — 'You have to tailor the choices of material to the actors you have: their types, their strengths and their weaknesses. It really limits the kind of productions you can select.'
Kubzansky added, 'There would be no way for us to retain a company vast enough that we could both showcase Julia Cho’s ‘The Winchester House’ and Suzan Lori Parks’ ‘The America Play’ and Jason Grote’s ‘1001.’' Those plays addressed the East Asian, the African-American and the Middle Eastern communities respectively."
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