South Coat Repertory

In November, South Coast Repertory instituted a discount policy, which designated the first Saturday matinee of every production as a "pay what you will" performance. The policy has allowed patrons to make same-day, box-office purchases of up to four tickets each at any price they chose, until all unsold seats for that performance ran out. "Those performances tend to have slow ticket sales," SCR spokesman Cristofer Gross said Wednesday. "That's why we picked them for 'pay what you will.'

In November, South Coast Repertory instituted a discount policy, which designated the first Saturday matinee of every production as a "pay what you will" performance. The policy has allowed patrons to make same-day, box-office purchases of up to four tickets each at any price they chose, until all unsold seats for that performance ran out. "Those performances tend to have slow ticket sales," SCR spokesman Cristofer Gross said Wednesday. "That's why we picked them for 'pay what you will.'

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, is it a duck? You'd think so. But if you ask a committee, especially a committee of drama critics, it has a pretty good chance of being a non-duck. I'm thinking of South Coast Repertory's production of "Holy Days" by Sally Nemeth, and the recent nominations for the 1990 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, is it a duck? You'd think so. But if you ask a committee, especially a committee of drama critics, it has a pretty good chance of being a non-duck. I'm thinking of South Coast Repertory's production of "Holy Days" by Sally Nemeth, and the recent nominations for the 1990 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards.