The Boston Globe, January 14th, 1987
Richard Bader, with his partner Charles Parker, has owned the Wilbur Theater since l98l. He bought it with "high hopes of what could happen outside Broadway in Boston." Almost ever since the l,200-seat house, which was built in l9l4 (by one A. L. Wilbur and the Shubert brothers), has been in trouble. Plagued by steady decline in the number of productions, inflation, shifting habits of theatergoing, competition and, most recently, a real estate squabble involving a valuable strip of land adjacent to the theater itself, Richard Bader finds himself in a crisis: "We think we can solve the problem...
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