| re: I'm sure you're right and I mourn their absence. | |
| Posted by: Billhaven 10:57 am EDT 07/15/24 | |
| In reply to: re: I'm sure you're right and I mourn their absence. - ryhog 04:28 pm EDT 07/14/24 | |
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| We obviously travel to different regions. I am quite familiar with the theater scene in Connecticut which has been struggling to recover since ( and even before) Covid. One of the finest regional theaters in the country-Long Wharf ( with 2 Tony Awards) is now a marijuana dispensary. They struggle to produce a coherent season as an itinerant company. Hartford Stage, also a Tony winner is down 30% since the pandemic. Yale Rep presents fewer plays in their season and can’t even attract a substantial student population who live adjacent to the theater. As a side note, New Have no longer has a single movie house. A sign that the arts presented in a public space is deemed neither essential nor profitable. Westport Country Playhouse, in the middle of one of the most affluent communities in the world has suspended their season and produces readings and one night concert events. Goodspeed hasn’t been able to completely fill their pocket size theater for months. The subscribers they do have are about as old as they come! So our community is hardly the robust scene you talk about. I certainly agree that we need to develop younger audiences, but how? |
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