Another Play – The Success Burden

So you’ve produced a play and it’s been well received on Broadway. Now what? “Expectations rise along with the number of opportunities to disappoint fans, who tend to want what they’ve so memorably enjoyed before. Then, of course, there are the critics, a few of whom specialize in holding artists to the impossibly high standards of their best works. These dramatists (one almost feels inclined to label them ‘poor little rich’) are damned if they attempt to produce more of the award-winning same and damned if they don’t.”