A New “Golden Age” Off-Broadway: Where Less Is More

About a month ago, Michael Paulson wrote an article for The Times about an unexpected “bright spot” in the American theatre landscape.“Broadway is struggling through a postpandemic funk, squeezed between higher production costs and lower audience numbers just as a bevy of new shows set sail into those fierce headwinds,” Paulson began.“At the same time,” he wrote, “New York’s Off Broadway nonprofits, long essential seedbeds for many