American Theatre, January 1st, 2008
FAIRFIELD, IOWA: Stephen Sondheim's city of birth, New York, has been good to him. So how come the first American theatre to bear his name isn't on the Great White Way, but instead in ... Iowa? How the new 522-seat Stephen Sondheim Center for the Performing Arts scored the endorsement of its namesake traces back to the 2006 founding of the Encore Players, Iowa's first professional touring musical theatre company. To fill its seats, a theatre in such a sprawling state must pull in patrons from several towns away. The touring component, says artistic director Randal West, "provided the means fo...
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