Why Theater Is (Not) Doomed, According to Three Leaders in the Trenches
variety.comGordon Cox Theater Editor News has been grim in the theater sector lately, as economic headwinds have forced organizations around the country to reduce programming, lay off staff, pause production or, in some cases, fold entirely.
In a conversation with two of his colleagues in the field, one theater leader said out loud what all the headlines seem to imply: “When we think about these models and we say it was broken — it’s not only broken.
It was also doomed,” said Kelvin Dinkins Jr., the executive director of American Repertory Theater, on the latest episode of “Stagecraft,” Variety‘s theater podcast. Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below: But in a roundtable discussion of the challenges facing theaters around the U.S.
and across the Atlantic, all three participants — Dinkins Jr. of A.R.T. in Cambridge, Mass.; Lucy Davies, the executive director at the Young Vic in London; and Martin Miller, the incoming executive director at the McCarter Theater in Princeton, N.J. — identified as many reasons for optimism as they did for concern over the state of industry.
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