"Are there ways both our organizations can learn from each other?" Caleb Hammons, one of the Rep's artistic leadership trio, has asked, while Playwrights' artistic director Adam Greenfield believes the collaboration will reveal "that two theaters working together are much greater than the sum of their parts." This expresses the hope of shared learning and growth in their joint endeavor.
The truth is that we really don't have a choice about whether or not to move toward a new era of mutual aid - of, theatrically speaking, co-production, space- and resource-sharing, and institutional collaboration and cross-pollination. This highlights the pressing need for collaboration in the theater industry amidst challenges.
It is exciting, though it never would have happened if Walkerspace's old landlord hadn't died and the building hadn't been acquired by yet another city-devouring developer. This points out the unfortunate reality of how external factors drastically affect the survival of arts venues.
What-in theater and everywhere else-are we to do as the bulldozers of avarice and bigotry roll on? The article calls upon the community to take action and support each other in the face of growing challenges.
#theater-collaboration #mutual-aid #cultural-politics #arts-venue-challenges #institutional-partnership
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