‘No Brits, No Chekhov Translations, No Classics’ – Broadway’s Smallest Theater Begins New American Plays Program With Nine (Diverse!) Commissions

That unequivocal statement came from Carole Rothman, the artistic director of Second Stage Theater, which, reports Michael Paulson, commissioned new works by the nine playwrights – seven of them women, three of them African-American, and one of them Asian-American – with the intention of bringing the shows to Broadway.”