American Theatre published in its October issue a list of the ten plays and musicals that are slated to be produced most frequently by American drama companies in the 2009-10 season. The online version of this piece contains links to similar lists going all the way back to the 1994-95 season, so I combined the last ten and created a meta-list of the most frequently produced plays of the decade. To find out what I learned from this exercise, read my “Sightings” column in Saturday’s Wall Street Journal. Here’s a hint: Samuel Beckett didn’t make the cut. Neither did Arthur Miller. Neither did George Bernard Shaw. Neither did Rodgers and Hammerstein….
Curious? You know what to do.
UPDATE: Read the whole thing here.
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