Carmen M. Herlihy

Chekhov By Way of (Urp) Buffalo; A Chorus Line From the Cheap Seats

Susan Sullivan, Carmen M. Herlihy and James <br> Waterston in A. R. Gurney’s <i>Buffalo Gal</i> at <br>59East59 Theatres.
James Leynse
Susan Sullivan, Carmen M. Herlihy and James
Waterston in A. R. Gurney’s Buffalo Gal at
59East59 Theatres.

Why do we go to the theater? Put it another way: Why, oh why, do we go to the theater? It frequently frustrates and disappoints us. And it’s expensive. Yet we keep going, come what may.

But look at it from the point of view of the people who work in theater. It frequently frustrates and disappoints them. And it’s expensive for them, too, because as a general rule of thumb they’re criminally underpaid.

Theater folk are the ones who subsidize the theater the most. So I was delighted by a peach of a line about their fatal attraction to a precarious life, one that comes in the last minutes of A.  read more »