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Originally Posted by hhunter
Except not The Gladstone, as it (sadly) didn't survive.
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Let's not pronounce the Gladstone dead just yet. I was at a show there last week, and the place was basically sold out.
The theatre is for sale, but it is continuing to operate at least through the spring. There is a show scheduled for February, and after that it will be available to any theatre production company etc. that wants to rent it out.
What the owner realized too late is that true small-scale commercial theatre is a really tough way to make money (perhaps the fact that basically every small theatre in Canada is a non-profit should have tipped him off). Still, I'm hoping that he finds a workable model going forward (i.e. conversion to a non-profit), as there have been some big successes there in the last couple of years.
The building really only works as a theatre, so hopefully it stays that way. I just find it hard to believe that any non-profit company is going to come up wit the $1.5 millon he is asking for the place.
In the mean time, go see a show there. The Importance of Being Earnest is on in February, and it is one of the truly great comedies in the English language.