Having capitulated for years to the crass forces of “relevance” and television commercialism in our quest for attention in an increasingly noisy world, the American theater has run out of resources and audiences just at the moment when what we do ought to matter more than ever. It is up to us to assert that the potency of two people in real time in a live encounter onstage can engage us more deeply and fully than all the blogs and special effects in the world.
