Perils of Going Public, Performed Way Off Broadway

"Trading Practices," a participatory production performed in an old building on New York's Governors Island, dramatizes the rise and fall of a family business. The NY Times finds the show "resourceful, whimsical and wearing."

Too bad the production had to open this summer, just after the upheaval at a New England supermarket chain demonstrated that truth trumps fiction. (Rumors that a top tunesmith-lyricist duo has started work on "Market Basket, The Musical," could not immediately be confirmed.)