“In his first season as general director, Timothy O’Leary seems to have followed his predecessor Charles MacKay’s playbook, cutting expenses where possible without affecting artistic quality. Also assisting with the bottom line were increased sales at the box office, with 92 percent attendance in a popular season. That’s an increase of over 5 percent from 2008, with a sizable new cohort of ticket buyers: 15 percent of them hadn’t been to OTSL before.”