Director of Theatre Robert F. Gross was among the presenters at the Mid-America Theatre Conference on March 5 in Kansas City, Mo. He presented the paper, “Celebrating Opposition? The Ambivalences of 'Mrs. Farnsworth,'” which discussed the production of A.R. Gurney's 2004 election year comedy at the Flea Theatre in Manhattan with Sigourney Weaver and John Lithgow.