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Comments on regional theaters' difficulties in finding directors who are willing and able to grapple with art and money. Andre Bishop, artistic director of Playwrights Horizons, named the new head of Lincoln Center Theater in March; His appointment the most visible in a number of job shifts now occurring in the nation's regional theaters.

Profiles Lloyd Richards who has been pivotal in helping playwrights and other artists find homes in the American theater. Needs of a playwright; First public success, directing `A Raisin in the Sun,' on Broadway; Working for five decades; Major positions in the past 12 years; Preferred role as teacher, mentor, nurturer; Details.

Considers how a number of American producers and directors believe that the quantity of Soviet culture being exported is beginning to outstrip demand, that the unprecedented influx of Soviet arts groups into the US has brought a decline in quality, and that work by less than top-rank artists has resulted in lackluster commercial and critical response.