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Monday, November 14, 2011
Margo Jones in 1951
Theatre Ideas: What our country needs today, theatrically speaking, is a resident professional theatre in every city with a population of over one hundred thousand.
It's an admirable goal that she set, and it really is a pity that it hasn't come to fruition. The cities with <100,000 people that have regional theatres tend to be in higher income areas or suburbs of large cities, indicating that there are other urban areas out there without major theatres. This means that even today there is very limited access to theatre, particularly to organizations that produce their own works.
This article reminds me how lucky we are to live in Pittsburgh and, particularly as students, have access to lots of theatre.
This article shows a large lack of theatre appeal to a wider audience and a lack of production money chasing the low income market. Theatre unless we change how we do business seems to be heading the way of opera. We are appealing to a rich and academic environment and without content changes we will be more and more confined to that market. Cirque has broadened the appeal but their shows are still too expensive for the low income market.
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It's an admirable goal that she set, and it really is a pity that it hasn't come to fruition. The cities with <100,000 people that have regional theatres tend to be in higher income areas or suburbs of large cities, indicating that there are other urban areas out there without major theatres. This means that even today there is very limited access to theatre, particularly to organizations that produce their own works.
This article reminds me how lucky we are to live in Pittsburgh and, particularly as students, have access to lots of theatre.
This article shows a large lack of theatre appeal to a wider audience and a lack of production money chasing the low income market. Theatre unless we change how we do business seems to be heading the way of opera. We are appealing to a rich and academic environment and without content changes we will be more and more confined to that market. Cirque has broadened the appeal but their shows are still too expensive for the low income market.
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