1.   And with good work coming from many nonprofit theaters, it may not be possible for the Public to consistently produce the volume or fireworks it once did.

2.   Apkon asked about the people the nonprofit theater hopes to attract.

3.   As with many nonprofit theaters, ticket sales account for a tiny fraction of the budget.

4.   At nonprofit theaters uptown, the effects were also profound.

5.   A lot of nonprofit theaters of all sizes are turning to England.

6.   After an abrupt scene change, the audience watches the administrators of a nonprofit theater trying to come to terms with the play they have just seen.

7.   Brokaw, an associate director at the nonprofit Second Stage theater, recommended the play to Carole Rothman, its artistic director.

8.   But few film stars are willing to commit themselves to open-ended theater roles and often prefer the limited engagements of the nonprofit theater.

9.   But these are hard times for nonprofit theater companies that eschew the feel-good melodramas that have proliferated like zooplankton.

10.   But will the nonprofit theaters that do this work be heard against the forbidding din of giants like Disney and SFX and the other media conglomerates certain to follow?