Financial problems, construction at Horton Plaza and low ticket sales blamed for shutdown, with plans to restructure
San Diego Repertory Theatre, which over the past 46 years has produced 333 plays and musicals in downtown San Diego, will suspend operations June 19.
But the Rep’s board of trustees hope this isn’t the end for the theater. It plans to explore options, including bankruptcy reorganization, that would allow it to restructure and reopen the Rep on more sustainable footing, possibly in 2024.“Today, we are at an inflection point,” Abigail Buell, San Diego Rep’s managing director, said in the statement.
“But this moment in time also calls for a 360-degree, arms-wide-open thank you and bravo to the hundreds of theater professionals who made 333 productions in the 46-year history of the Rep,” Woodhouse said in a statement. “Our goal is to bring the Rep back stronger, to continue making provocative, progressive theater, and we’re working toward this future.”Street theater artists Woodhouse and D.W.
At the time, Woodhouse said he and Jacobs weren’t sure anyone would come downtown for theater, but the Rep thrived and it created programming that reflected the community around it. In 1987, the Rep produced Luis Valdez’s “I Don’t Have to Show You No Stinking Badges.” It was the first of more than 50 plays by Latinx playwrights that would be presented through the company’s Teatro Sin Fronteras program.
When the company reopened last fall with Octavio Solis’ “Grapes of Wrath"-inspired play “Mother Road,” optimism for a return to solid footing was high. But like many other theaters, San Diego Rep experienced unexpectedly low ticket sales. Buell said attendances plummeted by 60 percent to 70 percent compared to pre-pandemic levels. Theaters nationwide have experienced declines of 50 percent or more, mostly due to patrons’ fear of COVID exposure in indoor spaces.
Patrons with tickets to future productions that have been canceled will be contacted before June 10. Canceled engagements include “Twelfth Night,” the rescheduled “Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” “Grand Master Funk,” “The Art of Shtisel,” “Joel Grey’s Favorite Plays,” the Whole Megillah play festival and “Angelina Reaux Sings the Love Songs of Kurt Weill.”
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