StageRage

In the digital age, more and more of America’s popular ”entertainments” have been moved inside the home, leaving the door open for the theatre to once again establish itself as not only an insular, culturally-specific artform but as the universally relevant enterprise that produced Death of a Salesman and A Raisin in the Sun. The theatre can never die. It can never be replaced. But as near-sighted producers have transformed Broadway into a Disney-themed cruise ship and the institutional not-for-profits have become more interested in the ethnicity of their playwrights than the value of their plays, the theatre has become the playground of the Upper West Side. Stagerage will speak for those not represented on the culture pages of the New York Times. Stagerage will speak for those not wealthy enough to be a Friend of Lincoln Center. Stagerage will speak the truth about an industry being crippled by its narrow cultural lens of Ivy League elitism.