To the Editor:

Many of us know what went wrong with Surflight, when and why. But of that group I continued buying a season’s worth of tickets every year, just as I have done since 1960, so I deserve to speak.

Though always in need of money because of the cost of that beautiful theater and the other buildings, the real problem occurred when Surflight stopped being a “summer stock theater,” which is the least expensive way to provide a community with professional theater, and “went New York,” which is the most…

February 18, 2015