Wednesday, January 01, 2025
Community Theatres May Not Last: How You Can Support
StageLync: I was excited to go to the play and dressed up as I grew up believing that’s what you do for theatre. The neon sign and lit up boards highlighting their upcoming shows was nostalgic and I felt almost transported back to being a child getting to experience it all again for the first time. Due to long hours of working in the industry, and being on the road so often, it has been rare for me to help support local theatre as much as I would have liked the past few years.
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I think community theatre is one of the closest forms of American theatre to theatre’s origins: simply a group of people coming together to tell stories and build connections. Not about production value, but about sharing time and space with other people. I love and commend it for that. As much as I love all the bells and whistles we’ve come to expect in theatre (sound effects, lighting, huge sets), there’s also something great about just telling stories just for the sake of the story and for doing it together. I think community theatre and improv share some merits in that respect. Often the best part of improv is sharing with whoever’s there that moment in time, and creating a story that has never been told before and will never be told again. It exists only for the people there. Story for story’s sake and for being there with others. The best part of community theatre is sharing it with the people you make it with, with the people you watch it with, and cheering on your community. For that, it is wonderful.
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