LINCOLN CENTER BUYS BRITISH

“Lincoln Center Festival is for all intents and purposes in the business of bringing foreign artists to New York–and American regional theater, unlike British theater, is devoid of the made-in-Europe snob appeal that goes over so well in New York. But what if Washington’s Kennedy Center, or some ambitious presenter in Denver or Palm Beach or San Francisco, undertook the task of putting on an all-American Shakespeare festival? Or, better still, a festival of great American plays performed by our top regional companies?…”