"We're going to try and do what Cameron is doing, start it in a regional house."

"At a lot of regional houses, I expect to make somewhere between $1,000 and $3,000" per performance, Mr. Elzinga said.

He started rewriting soon after the show opened, and when it went to regional houses, he made significant changes.

Together they produced a number of fine regional houses of native brick, wood, and stone in north central Texas.

Over 70 regional historical houses can be visited.

Among the regular features are a back-page profile of regional American vernacular houses and a tongue-in-cheek column called "Remuddling."

He appeared in several smaller regional houses for the next three years and then joined the Berlin State Opera in 1862.

The second is the development of an alternative theater (Off Broadway and regional houses).

Published by a small regional house before Putnam bought it last year, the book has developed a fervent following mainly through word of mouth.

In 2012 the Wall Street Journal declared "The Fountain Theatre is one of this country's best intimate regional houses."