• 629. How Is Live Theater Still Alive?

  • Apr 11 2025
  • Length: 1 hr
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629. How Is Live Theater Still Alive?

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  • It has become fiendishly expensive to produce, and has more competition than ever. And yet the believers still believe. Why? And does the world really want a new musical about ... Abraham Lincoln?! (Part one of a three-part series.)

    • SOURCES:
      • Christopher Ashley, artistic director of La Jolla Playhouse.
      • Quentin Darrington, actor.
      • Joe DiPietro, playwright and lyricist.
      • Crystal Monee Hall, composer, singer, actor.
      • Rocco Landesman, Broadway producer, former owner of Jujamcyn Theaters, former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts.
      • Alan Shorr, Broadway producer.
      • Daniel Watts, writer, choreographer, actor.
      • Richard Winkler, Broadway producer.

    • RESOURCES:
      • 3 Summers of Lincoln (2025)
      • “Live Performance Theaters in the US - Market Research Report (2014-2029),” by Grace Wood (IBISWorld, 2024).
      • Leadership: In Turbulent Times, by Doris Kearns Goodwin (2018).
      • Big River (1984)

    • EXTRAS:
      • “How to Make the Coolest Show on Broadway,” by Freakonomics Radio (2024).
      • “You Can Make a Killing, but Not a Living,” by Freakonomics Radio (2024).
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