This weekend, when Paradise Lost opened, Kate Whoriskey became the sole artistic director of Intiman Theater, succeeding Bart Sher (and following a period of transitional co-directorship).

Also as of this weekend: Whoriskey's Miracle Worker, a Broadway revival starring Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine), announced that it's going down.

After only 21 preview performances and 38 regular performances, the Broadway revival of William Gibson’s play “The Miracle Worker” will close at Circle in the Square Theater next Sunday, the producers David Richenthal and Dini von Mueffling said on Sunday. The show cost $2.6 million to mount and will close at a total loss to its producers and investors, a spokesman for the show said.

A question that went conspicuously unasked in the mixed reviews of The Miracle Worker: Why do this play, of all possible plays, now? Why should people care about a revival of this very, very well-worn story?

Looks like they didn't.