The news last week that Reprise Theatre Company is suspending operations brought into stark focus the economics of a midsize theater attempting to concentrate on lean, concert-version productions of lesser-known musicals of yore. There has been speculation on whether the quality of the productions, or the quality of the classics the theater produced, was worth the effort of reviving them. But that's almost beside the point, which is the challenges a theater of this size faces when it attempts to do something that defies... More >>>