On self-publishing a play versus submitting to theatres directly: an ungodly long blog post

On a playwrighting group I belong to on Facebook, someone asked if anyone had an experience with self-publishing plays. I replied about how I had I self-published The Love of Three Oranges, racked up a ton of productions and then publishers came to me so I had my pick of offers and that there were a lot of benefits to it. There a bunch of reasons why I ultimately went with a traditional publisher when the play was doing fine self-published and I outlined them in this series back in 2011.The t...