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For Elevator Repair Service (ERS), pleasure comes from problems. “We’re not a theater company making shows,” says Artistic Director John Collins, “we are shows making a theater company.”

In 1935, Clifford Odets began a new era in American drama.

“We didn’t go hungry, but we lived lean” sums up the experience of many families during the 1930s.

Daniel Fish: “Someone once said to me that people who work in theater either got into the theater because of Brecht or because of American musicals. For me it was both.”

Josh Gibson is said to have hit over 800 career home runs; one of them was so high and deep that it disappeared into the clouds. The next day, the same two teams were playing in a different city. A baseball fell out of the sky, right smack into an outfielder’s glove. The umpire yelled: “You’re out, Gibson! Yesterday!”

A.R.T. Dramaturg Ryan McKittrick speaks with the creators of Johnny Baseball: writer Richard Dresser, composer Robert Reale, and lyricist Willie Reale.