Crackers and a communal pot of cheese, long a tradition of bars in the theater district, is losing a fight for survival against health regulations.

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Sardi’s Stops Free Cheese Pots After Health Department Inspection

Bay Theatre Company Artistic Director Janet Luby says of “Wit,” Margaret Edson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, which opens at the theater Friday: “It holds your hand and it takes you somewhere that you don’t want to go, but you’re glad that you went.” “Wit” is also set to open on Broadway early next year, starring Cynthia Nixon. The BTC production stars Helen Hayes Award-winner Rena Cherry Brown as Vivian Bearing, a 50-year-old English professor who realizes, as she is dying, that she led an incomplete life. Just before heading out to cut off her hair to take on the appearance of Bearing, a chemotherapy patient, Brown spoke about baring her soul and her body in her most trying theatrical endeavor. Read full article > >

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Rena Cherry Brown on Bay Theatre Company’s ‘Wit’