{"id":79191,"date":"2024-09-05T14:40:47","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T21:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theatrepugetsound.org\/?p=79191"},"modified":"2024-09-05T14:59:18","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T21:59:18","slug":"seattle-times-seattle-theater-may-undergo-a-radical-reshaping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theatrepugetsound.org\/seattle-times-seattle-theater-may-undergo-a-radical-reshaping\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle Times: Seattle theater may undergo a &#8216;radical reshaping&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>September 4, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/author\/gemma-wilson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gemma Wilson<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/author\/margo-vansynghel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Margo Vansynghel<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;September kicks off a new season in the performing arts, and in normal years we\u2019d be rolling out the red carpet for a new crop of thrilling shows without trepidation.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But this fall, things don\u2019t feel normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s been a lot of bad news: Seattle theater companies are launching&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/taproottheatre.org\/donate\/impact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">emergency fundraisers<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/entertainment\/theater\/act-contemporary-theatre-and-seattle-shakespeare-company-may-soon-merge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">exploring mergers<\/a>, furloughing or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/entertainment\/theater\/seattle-rep-layoffs-to-include-majority-of-its-artistic-staff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">laying people off<\/a>, and cutting back on \u2014 or even postponing \u2014 shows and downsizing casts. Workers are worried about the future of the field.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But amid this chaos, compounded by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/entertainment\/fall-arts-2023-leadership-changes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">massive turnover among local arts leaders<\/a>, some in the theater industry see huge opportunities: To overhaul an inequitable model built on underpaying people, to really consider audiences\u2019 experiences, to take artistic risks, to streamline operations and share resources so the focus can be on making high-quality work and getting money into artists\u2019 hands&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/entertainment\/theater\/seattle-theater-may-undergo-a-radical-reshaping\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawFG8_1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHd-TfzrHqmjwWsEeDl0gibLRLiuMv0t1u9uUOkXM6oAsw4tTc5ixEcU-aA_aem_oH17KYRqlbh6ixqj5urRQg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the full <em>Seattle Times <\/em>article here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 4, 2024 By\u00a0Gemma Wilson\u00a0and\u00a0Margo Vansynghel &#8220;September kicks off a new season in the performing arts, and in normal years we\u2019d be rolling out the red carpet for a new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6192,"featured_media":79192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_mo_disable_npp":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","_jf_save_progress":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tps-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theatrepugetsound.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theatrepugetsound.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theatrepugetsound.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theatrepugetsound.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theatrepugetsound.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theatrepugetsound.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theatrepugetsound.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theatrepugetsound.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theatrepugetsound.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theatrepugetsound.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}