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| NYT Opinion Piece: American Theater is Imploding | |
| Posted by: Charlie_Baker 10:32 am EDT 07/19/23 | |
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| re: NYT Opinion Piece: American Theater is Imploding | |
| Posted by: student_rush 01:13 pm EDT 07/19/23 | |
| In reply to: NYT Opinion Piece: American Theater is Imploding - Charlie_Baker 10:32 am EDT 07/19/23 | |
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| As I wrote in the Shakespeare in the Park thread above, nonprofit theatres have been -- by and large, with obvious exceptions -- producing shitty work for the last five years, pre and post-COVID. Audiences disappear when the work is no longer relevant or competent. This isn't that hard to figure out ... the gatekeepers and those in charge of production and programming are, for the most part, completely isolated from the general audiences they need to fill houses. For too long, these nonprofit producers have been bending over backwards to create theatre that caters to an imaginary audience that doesn't exist (or doesn't exist in the size needed for financial stability). When a commercial production fails, it fails. Life goes on. When a nonprofit production fails, people blame every societal cause possible except ... maybe the shows are bad? Maybe they are consistently bad? Artistic Directors and Managing Directors keep their jobs, rinse and repeat. Then one day we wake up a decade later and ask, "WHERE ARE THE AUDIENCES?" Um, they're tired of being burnt out on boring, stupid, lazy theatre making. |
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| re: NYT Opinion Piece: American Theater is Imploding | |
| Posted by: singleticket 02:20 pm EDT 07/19/23 | |
| In reply to: re: NYT Opinion Piece: American Theater is Imploding - student_rush 01:13 pm EDT 07/19/23 | |
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| the gatekeepers and those in charge of production and programming are, for the most part, completely isolated from the general audiences they need to fill houses. For too long, these nonprofit producers have been bending over backwards to create theatre that caters to an imaginary audience that doesn't exist (or doesn't exist in the size needed for financial stability). I’m not sure a “general audience” still exists for the contemporary non-profit theater if it ever did. There’s certainly no middle economically anymore in this country. I agree the Blue States’ theater-response to the Culture War can be not a lot of fun. War isn’t a lot of fun. Perhaps we will see theater in the next ten years that attempts to build some kind of common ground between the Red and the Blue that isn’t a normalization of racism and authoritarianism. |
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