We've been hearing for years that theatregoers are abandoning season subscriptions and instead buying individual tickets. This creates a situation that's quite tough for theatres in terms of budgeting and cash flow.
So how do you explain the Manitoba Theatre Centre's 50th season news?
This season attracted a record number of subscribers: 18,030 at the John Hirsch Theatre at the MTC Mainstage and 2,398 at the Tom Hendry Theatre at the MTC Warehouse, for a total of 20,428 subscribers and 141,800 in total attendance.
Exception that proves the rule? Or should more theatre companies be looking at the way artistic director Steven Schipper and general manager Zaz Bajon have been running things in Winnipeg?
Links o' the day:
- James Adams followed up on the Shaw Festival-aimed Share the Stage campaign in Saturday's paper. Things are still heated on the Facebook group, which has 907 members now...
- Kudos to actor Deidre Gillard-Rowlings, touring with a production of Robert Chafe's Tempting Providence, for reaching out and touching someone (someone named Laureen Harper) about the importance of the cut PromArt program.
- Timothy Findley's Elizabeth Rex gets mixed reviews in a new production in New York. (New York Times , Variety, New York Post.)
