In fact, some of our best contemporary national theater (I’m thinking of “Angels in America,” “The Laramie Project,” August Wilson’s great cycle of plays) is regional, and surely Tennessee Williams and Eugene O’Neill were regionalists, too. In the 1970s and ’80s especially, Oregon’s Charles Deemer — http://www.geocities.com/cdeemer/ — carried the banner for an exciting Northwestern brand of theater. Is it fair to say that the Broadway musical in its heydey was a form of regional theater, its region being Tin Pan Alley and the streets of New York?
Art Scatter
It's gratifying to be remembered for my work in the 70s and 80s, of course, but at the same time it's frustrating that little since then has attracted local interest. My most honored play, for example (winner of an international competition and other awards), Famililly, still has never been produced in Oregon.
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