Author: Juliana Francis Kelly

Production Photo: “The Law of Remains.” Copyright John Zalewski     I have come to the conclusion that plays never end. They just look like they do. I have no academic credentials to back this claim up, just an accumulation of anecdotal evidence scrabbled together over two decades of working with alarmingly smart directors, playwrights, designers, dramaturgs, and actors. I am not talking about remembering plays, about feeling sentimental about favorite plays, or about failure to wrest oneself from resentment over lousy ones. I am not attempting to slight live theater’s gorgeous immediacy, the agreement between audience and performer...