But Broadway isn’t really a space for art, and it hasn’t been for most of my adult lifetime. Art generally runs for two or three months at most, and it rarely gets away with charging premium prices.
I’m all for at that unsettles and provokes - I can’t wait for “A Strange Loop” - but that is not what most folks are paying for when they plop down $700 to see Hugh and Sutton. At these prices, art is hard to come by.
If you want to see art, you gotta go Off-Broadway or further afield. Every so often, something from those ranks manages to make it to Broadway (though not always with its guts intact), but Broadway doesn’t exist to be a crucible for art. I’m sorry to be the one to break that to you. |
