Also, physically, I just hurt. Three of us completed what would ordinarily have been a four or five person, twenty-hour strike, in ten hours.

Also, physically, I just hurt. Three of us completed what would ordinarily have been a four or five person, twenty-hour strike, in ten hours.

Hmmm, so maybe the phantom limb pain is more of a projection. Like you wish you weren't aching in every extremity.

Pound some ibuprofen, stud.

I really did not like striking the rental mains without restoring the house mains. No restore. Just strike. It's wrong.

No restore. Just strike. It's wrong.

You need to go rewatch Slings and Arrows.

Theaters close, yeah. And it sucks.

But...theaters open. That's pretty much Theater History. It's very cyclical and longevity is not the byword.

Unless you live in Stratford upon Avon.

The building and the institution has been around since the twenties, so this is not even the second or third time it's closed its doors. And (I think) this is at least the fourth or fifth iteration of the company. If not more. At least the building is an historical landmark, so it would be very difficult for a developer to come in and put a car park there.

Still. It was a home. And a major regional theater to boot. As of today, there is no longer a State Theater of California (unofficial).

And on a slightly pettier note, the pool of searching techies just grew, while the number of venues for work just shrunk.

But...theaters open.

Not right now and not in California. We rank last in the nation for arts funding and most of the theatres in the state are really hurting. We've lost far too many long standing and good theatres statewide in the last two years. San Jose watched one of the longest running musical theatre organizations shut down this past year when American Musical Theatre of San Jose went bankrupt.

Pasadena Playhouse is closing the doors with a faint hope that they can eventually reorganize and reopen at some point in the future, but it is a very sad day for the arts in LA and a very sad day for lots of personal friends who are tied to that theatre.

Plus the city of LA has announced that it's considering cutting off all funding to the arts.

I really don't want to leave LA, let alone the state of California, but with the direction theater is going, it's a possibility I have to consider. I know for sure at least a couple of my friends from the Playhouse think moving out of state may be their only option. Blood. Family. People who mean as much or more as Buffistas to me.

And, as I posted on facebook earlier today, I don't like being a mortician.