New York City. “Not only do
they do nothing but new work,
which is hard enough, but they
take risks on plays that nobody
else would do. The dirty little
secret about plays is that theatres will often do development
readings and do commissions.
They’ll say we’ll pay you a certain amount of money if you
develop a play. They will do
readings at the theatre, but at
the end of it the y don’t produce
them. They’ll say we gave you
a little money to develop it and
now we’re going to do a more
established play.”
“New plays are risky,” added
Gino. “You tend to lose money
on new plays. NJ Rep has figured it out. Their audience expects new work and are along
for the ride. They love seeing
these plays come from the reading stage to the second reading stage and then on to a production and other productions.
They have a sense of pride; a
sense of ownership of these
plays, which is the genius of that
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