Though I bet down to see a show there much more rarely than I would like, I'm always glad to see a NY theatre surviving if only for a little longer.

I was going to school at Purchase College and working on various "traditional theatre" pieces up on theatre row in 1994 when I took an internship with Robert Lyons at the Ohio theatre. I learned a little something about how to manage a theatre, but mostly I saw what moving, shaking, dealing, and luck it takes to keep a small theatre going in NY, and more excitingly I got introduced to the NY theatre scene which really interested me artistically much more than what I was getting at school or in the uptown theatre scene.
And based on what Robert saw in me he sent me over 3 blocks to HERE arts center to meet the folks at Gertrude Stein Rep. which seemed like home, and morphed over the next 15 years into Digital Performance Institute, where you still find me.