Theater Rumors and Lies
posted by on February 20 at 11:12 AM
Did you hear that rumor that was going around about artistic director Bart Sher leaving Intiman for points east? It wasn’t too outlandish, since Sher spends a lot of time gadding about in New York and DC, directing Il Barbiere di Siviglia (apparently a “winsome new staging”) and suchlike.
Anyway, it ain’t so—not yet.
From Intiman central command:
Bartlett Sher has extended his contract through the end of the 2009 production season. Sher is currently in New York directing the first Broadway revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific, which opens on April 3 at Lincoln Center Theater. He will direct the world premiere of Namaste Man, a play written and performed by Andrew Weems, at Intiman in the spring.
Somehow, I don’t imagine we’ll be seeing much of old Bart after 2009. And soon longtime managing director Laura Penn will be gone, off to run the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.
Anyone looking to take over Intiman? Start plotting now.
We've already got a fringie on the "inside"; she's just waiting for the signal.
And frankly, this isn't really surprising news (although I personally hadn't heard any recent "he's leaving" rumblings - which seem to recur on an almost annual basis anyway), because it's just a one-year extension, and because he's already spending a lot of time in NYC as it is.
Really, it's just "the best of both worlds" so far as Sher is concerned; he gets to keep his steady bread-and-butter gig at Intiman, while spending a good portion of his time elsewhere, and leaving the day-to-day operations in the hands of the folks who've been doing it all along.
Fuck. Now he'll never produce Oedipus Rex, and thus my bet - that he'd TOTALLY use "These Eyes" by the Guess Whos as the ending song - will never be settled.
Really @2? 'cause I'd heard he was totally going to use Manfred Mann's "Blinded By The Light" for that!
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