Shake Out At The Opera As Economy Stalls
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on December 12, 2008
Before each performance of Puccini’s “La Boheme” at the San Francisco Opera house this fall, company director David Gockley stepped through the curtain and delivered a grim message to the audience.
Gockley told them he wanted to “address all of your concerns about how the San Francisco Opera is affected by the tumultuous state of the [...]
American Musical Theatre Of San Jose Brings The Final Curtain Down
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on December 3, 2008
One of the South Bay’s “longest-running cultural institutions,” American Musical Theatre of San Jose, is calling it quits. The Broadway musical-ish theater will halt all performances this week and file for Chapter 7 bankruptcy.
But in an odd twist, according to theater officials, AMT’s failure doesn’t necessarily stem from the current economic crisis that has slowed [...]