Respect them and they will respect you. I'd like to know how those two experiences compared. It's a spontaneous, even casual affair, owing to lower ticket prices and more diverse programming, along with a brighter critical establishment. Critics in London support new plays, new voices, new structures, see it as their duty, indeed, to do that. Quite simply, it's a better time there.
Writers are desperate for productions so often they take bad advice.
Capitalism has done untold damage to the art of theatre. During my development of the work, I took it to New York to be read by a group of dedicated actors, at Planet One Cafe in the East Village. It's a tiny place which I doubt could fit much more than twenty people. My wife and I, plus two friends attended this little event. Basically, for me it was a transforming event to hear two excellent actors pick up my script and cold-read it like they knew it.