Comments on: How theatre failed America http://theatreisterritory.com/2008/02/how-theatre-failed-america/ Performance. Production. Theory. Fri, 18 May 2012 17:20:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: mike http://theatreisterritory.com/2008/02/how-theatre-failed-america/comment-page-1/#comment-478 mike Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:06:00 +0000 http://theatreisterritory.com/?p=269#comment-478 woah, this article is bleak. the death of the rep theatre model is a huge friggin problem. i was a student at the American Repertory Theatre when they switched from using a company of 17 actors to a core company of five, bringing the rest in from NYC to fill roles as they needed. we are a generation of freelancers...<br/><br/>the impetus to program pedestrian works to avoid an aging subscriber and fundraising base may be an even bigger problem though. the only way outta this mess is new stuff that brings new people to the theatre. woah, this article is bleak. the death of the rep theatre model is a huge friggin problem. i was a student at the American Repertory Theatre when they switched from using a company of 17 actors to a core company of five, bringing the rest in from NYC to fill roles as they needed. we are a generation of freelancers…

the impetus to program pedestrian works to avoid an aging subscriber and fundraising base may be an even bigger problem though. the only way outta this mess is new stuff that brings new people to the theatre.

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