How new plays killed the new season; or, are we reaching a kind of development end-game?
It's hard to deny that in Boston, so far this has been the weakest theatrical season in memory. And it's not too hard to see why: in two words - new plays. This fall I've sat through a series of premieres, all with strong casts, and all well produced and (more or less) well directed. But I'd argue none of these scripts were really ready for the stage; indeed one or two of them never should have…