OK, but just you wait
I’M in favor of a good healthy dialogue about the theater [“One-Man Show,” Sept. 24]. It’s good for your readers, it’s good for your reporters and critics and editors, and it can be good for artists working in the theater.
Center Theatre Group is a strong organization, and change in leadership takes time. Theater is alive and always reinventing, growing and reexamining itself. I received more than my share of lumps from many doubters, including The Times, over seasons, over productions, over anything that might come into the crosshairs of the critical guns. We also received a share of welcome bouquets for work well done. I learned. I felt challenged. I survived and we thrived and audiences got on board our roller coaster.
I believe that Michael Ritchie will do all that and more. He will find his own way in the 21st century. He will grow. He will evolve. He will change and deepen the work of the theaters at CTG. I can’t wait for his fifth season and his 10th season. I’ll be there (even if it’s with my walker) and we’ll all look back at the journey with a smile and a nod of uneasy (always uneasy) satisfaction.
Just you wait and see, Charles McNulty -- come along for the ride.
GORDON DAVIDSON
Davidson is Center Theatre Group’s founding artistic director.
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