“‘All we are trying to do is to present good theatre.’ So said unnamed ‘leaders’ of Workshop Theatre, in a 1968 newspaper article which assessed their first season and promoted the second. It’s almost impossible to imagine that the group often referred to the upstart or breakaway theatre, founded by rebels or young Turks, is nearing the half-century mark, and harder still to imagine that soon the curtain will fall on their familiar location at Bull and Gervais Streets. Still, audiences know that a second act always follows that curtain, and that a theatre is far more than a building, however beloved that building may be. In keeping with this issue’s theme of women artists, we thought it only appropriate to consider all that Workshop has meant to so many people over the years, and to tell its story through the eyes, ears, and memories of some – only a handful out of dozens, hundreds even – of its most distinguished leading ladies. …” – August Krickel
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