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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Wed Jun 11, 2014, 02:56 PM Jun 2014

The Tenth Largest City In America (TM) no longer has a theater company of its own

http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/San-Jose-Rep-shutting-down-5544908.php

The 34-year-old San Jose Repertory Theater Company announced Wednesday that it has filed for bankruptcy and will cease operations Monday....

"However, after months of trying to solve our financial issues, reduce our debts and construct a sustainable model for the organization, we felt we had no choice but to take this action. ...

But SJ Rep is in many ways a more significant company, the flagship repertory theater of the Bay Area's largest city. San Jose Rep long financially troubled, seemed to come close to closing down in 2006, when then interim managing director Nick Nichols and the board arranged a $2 million (its budget at the time was $5 million) bailout line of credit with the city, later converted into a long-term loan. The larger but by then badly faltering American Musical Theatre of San Jose, which the city also bailed out with a loan at the same time, abruptly closed its doors in 2008....

Its closure leaves the South Bay with one major repertory company, the larger and seemingly more thriving TheatreWorks, which stages its season in Mountain View and Palo Alto and would represent a severe loss of year-round employment opportunities for actors, directors and designers trying to cobble together a living in the Bay Area.


This town gets more by the minute.
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The Tenth Largest City In America (TM) no longer has a theater company of its own (Original Post) KamaAina Jun 2014 OP
evidently the local community did not like the repertoire enough to attend nt msongs Jun 2014 #1
Perhaps because San Francisco is only an hour away if there's no traffic KamaAina Jun 2014 #2
Or their operating costs (rent) outpaced any money they could make. Lordquinton Jun 2014 #3
 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
2. Perhaps because San Francisco is only an hour away if there's no traffic
Wed Jun 11, 2014, 11:41 PM
Jun 2014

Philly has had the same problem with respect to NYC, at twice the distance.

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