Primrose Road

Received a postcard today for "The English Channel," by Robert Brustein, at the Dorothy Streslin Theatre (312 W. 36th St.):

"The murky relationship between great writers and their proclivity to "borrow" ideas and materials is examined in this comedy trading Shakespeare's relationship with the Earl of Southampton, the Dark Lady of the Sonnets and Christopher Marlowe during the turbulent months before Marlowe's death."

There could be a misunderstanding of how authorship and "borrowing" worked in the days before copyright and intellectual property, but it looks like it's worth seeing nevertheless. It's playing until October 5th (see Smarttix.com for tickets and showtimes).