#CenterTheatreGroup announced it will lay off ~10% of its full-time staff and pause season programming at the Mark Taper Forum. The contraction at L.A.’s most prominent theater organization keeps with what has been happening to theaters large and small:

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Theater critic Charles McNulty speaks with Snehal Desai, the newly named artistic director of Center Theatre Group, about CTG's challenges and the road ahead:

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https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-04-14/snehal-desai-ctg-new-artistic-director-los-angeles #press

#Playwright #LuisAlfaro on the power of representation in #NewPlayDevelopment as his season of #CenterTheatreGroup’s Writer’s Workshop — made up of all #LosAngeles #women #playwrights — draws to a close: “The future is female. Our #AmericanTheatre may be ailing in its visions, but its #artists continue the ancient path, regardless of.”
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As a former #communications guy at a #theatre organization that used the “re” spelling in its name, #CenterTheatreGroup, the #NewYorkTimes #StyleGuide forcing their journalists to spell our name wrong (with a “er” not “re”) always chapped my hide. 🤓

Proud to say that I have now worked for two institutions—#CenterTheatreGroup and #WesleyanUniversity—that were "lovingly" joked about in #BoJackHorseman.

As a #nonprofit #theatre, #CenterTheatreGroup prided itself on #accessible price points for #tickets. Nonprofit theatres should be focusing their efforts on investing in the creation of #art and audience cultivation, not curbing audience misperceptions resulting from #Ticketmaster’s
marketplace influence. When unsuspecting audiences assumed the inflated ticket prices on Ticketmaster
are face value, the perception of theatre having inaccessible pricing becomes their perceived
reality. 😡

When I worked at a regional theatre in L.A., #CenterTheatreGroup, we would constantly be frustrated by #Ticketmaster’s re-selling functionality. Our theatre did not use Ticketmaster to sell tickets. We used a separate system, #Tessitura. And yet, Ticketmaster had our venues listed on its site and always sold marked up, third-party resale #tickets to our shows. Their listing our tickets without explanation led patrons to believe they were buying through an official source, which was not the case.

Working with #LuisAlfaro was a rare treat. His legacy at #CenterTheatreGroup has only been greatened by his most recent return tour of duty. “We have a long way to go in our pandemic recovery AND in our commitment to equity and diversity. A training does not make change, change makes change. Making #art is making tension, so keep pushing against all that we know needs shifting.” https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2022-11-02/luis-alfaro-announces-departure-from-center-theatre-group