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    Emily Mann Leading Light

    Mar 25, 2019 4 minutes
    BY ROB WEINERT-KENDT

    THERE’S NEWS, AND THEN THERE’S BIG NEWS. The announcement in January that Emily Mann would plan one last season at McCarter Theatre Center, then step down from the post in 2020, was definitely the latter. In leading Princeton, N.J.’s $12.5 million theatre from a respected regional outpost to a Tony-winning incubator of new work (including her own plays, such as Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years and Mrs. Packard) and new talent, she put her stamp not only on generations of theatre artists but creative administrators as well.

    ROB WEINERT-KENDT: This is big news.

    EMILY MANN: Big, scary news, yes. Huge for me anyway.

    Also huge for

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