Read about the Performance Network, in the Ann Arbor Observer
By Davi Napoleon
Opening night, winter 2013: Spectators pour into the lobby, enjoying complimentary champagne as they engage in animated conversations about the play they just saw. They cluster around the buffet, helping themselves to shrimp and sandwiches, cheese and chocolates, as members of the cast, now out of costume, join them. Directors Carla Milarch and David Wolber, dressed to the nines, mingle.
In back rooms, angry allegations abound. Money is short, tempers are shorter. But out in the lobby it appears the Performance Network Theatre is thriving. “We all failed in the background,” Wolber reflects. ‘We were surviving by using our theatrical expertise to make shoestrings look like gold.”