Also this week, New Village Arts announces its 2023-24 season
in Chula Vista will open a fund-raising production of Steven Dietz’s comedy-drama “Lonely Planet.”
OnStage — which won an award for outstanding achievement by a small theater at the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Awards in March — is facing challenges that are sadly not unique. Theater companies all over the country have struggled to come back from the pandemic. Theater attendance and donations are down, federal stimulus funds have run out and operating costs have skyrocketed.
In April, the leaders of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival launched a $2.5 million fundraising campaign to save its 2023 season. That campaign was successful, but the organization also said it would postpone planning a 2024 season until finances stabilize. Also in April, Dallas Theater laid off half of its staff, including its entire acting company. And in the spring, New Ohio Theatre announced that will shut down permanently on Aug. 31.
Another recent fatality was PianoFight Theatre, which shuttered its locations in San Francisco and Oakland in March after 16 years in business. In a January statement, PianoFight’s operations director Duncan Wold explained the reasons for the shutdown.
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