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Daily Rehearsal: Steve Gadlin makes big with cats (no dogs)

1. “The higher the budget, the fewer women directors and the fewer number of plays by women,” Susan Jonas told the Wall Street Journal. Topical, no?

2. The story behind My Kind of Town and elucidated in this blog post from Timeline, by artistic director PJ Powers.

Steve Gadlin on ABC's 'Shark Tank'

3. More on Clybourne Park. The Times has some sort of love/no-hate-at-all relationship going on with that play.

4. Don’t judge A.V. Club writer Tyler Fisher too much; he just had to make a “raining cats and dogs” joke in this piece about how Steve Gadlin is making big off of I Want To Draw A Cat For You.

5. I too got this press release and it was ridiculous.

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