How Do You Solve A Problem Like Maria?

In which we discuss the departure of a D.C. bigshot, and suchlike

I Dunno, But Let’s Talk It Out

The one thing I loved the very most about Theaterboy (of curséd memory) was the clan of die-hard readers and commenters who gathered there back in the day.

Y’all came to share, to support, to sass, and to take big swings at — and if nothing else, you validated my frequent claim that nothing a critic says in print will ever be as shocking as the things theaterpeople say to each other in (semi)private.

So I figure I ought to at least make a group chat possible on this here Substack, just in the hope that a few of you still have the appetite for such things in the post-Twitter age.

And I figured there’s probably no better way to kick things off than with this bit of hot topic:

As my colleague Naveen Kumar outlines in that Washington Post briefing, Woolly Mammoth artistic director Maria Manuela Goyanes is off (home) to Manhattan in September, to frolic with Lear deBessonet at Lincoln Center. Among other things, she’ll be running the new artists/new audiences op…