Michael Bourne makes the provocative claim that the best of Broadway these days is on cable TV.
You can measure the Golden Age of American theater in many ways, but I would mark it from the 1944 debut of The Glass Menagerie to the opening night of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1962…. [F]or a short time after the Second World War, American commercial theater hit that elusive sweet spot where popularity meets ambitious social and artistic agendas.
I would contend that the best of Broadway has moved to Off-Broadway, and the best of Off has moved to Off Off.