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But NWAS at 1100 East Pike Street (which has done shows from Carlotta’s) is finished.

Oh crap... Roger Tang's Pork Filled Players had just moved into NWAS as their primary venue too! I hope they can find a new home base. Maybe Hugo House will take them back.

RIP, NWAS. I remember seeing my first theatre show after moving to Seattle there. It was the short lived comedy troupe Winnebago.

RIPish...

As of late, the studio hasn't been treating its supporters very well.

@3

Hard times tend to do that.

Gomez: It's unlikely that PFP will be able to return to Hugo House on an on-going basis, since they've just signed on two theatre companies (SIS Productions, & I can't remember the other one) to a two year residency program that starts in January.

Anne Michaelson is awesome. The Pike/Pine neighborhood is very, very lucky that she's the real estate big wig around here.

that sucks...it's a sweet little space...with an affordable rent for small companies...that's sure to end now...

COMTE: Well, at least they have a residency deal for next year. Hopefully, they can secure some space in the interim for the rest of 2007, because they've got shows planned for October, and probably other dates as well.

in europe, do theatre groups go out of existence because they can't pay market rates for rent?

no, they're subsidized by the ministry of culture. but we don't do that because we hate pleasure & love death.

another victim of american militarism.

who is the landlord raising CHAC/Annex's rent? do they own other arts spaces that we should start worrying about soon?

No, max, it's because there's a fundamental disconnect between commercial property owners' desire to maxmize their revenue in this market... and the means and needs of the population.

Speaking above the issue with flowery metaphors that bemoan the lack of socialism in our society doesn't help matters as much as speaking about it on concrete, more realistic terms.

So yeah, the actual problem is that the owners are greedy fucks who are taking advantage of the existing market.

@6 Anne is truly a godsend in our neighborhood. A landowner/landlord who loves the neighborhood the way she found it, not the way it will be when it's another Belltown (or worse). She restores and maintains her buildings rather than turn them into piles of ill-gotten cash.

Well, thanks for the kind words from folks. Pork Filled Players doesn't have a residency deal in place, but we'll muddle through. (Though for what was a pretty good theatre town, things have fallen on hard times in a lot of ways, and I'm not sure the wider public is aware of it....).

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