I was talking with a fellow theatermaker who just closed a show at the Ohio Theater with Clubbed Thumb about what a special space it is–it’s height, it’s depth, it’s location and it’s history of really wonderful projects that’ve run through there. I saw Sung Rno’s wAve there some time back and they carved a river with running water down the side of the stage and then simulated the landing of a helicopter. I saw Target Margin’s beautiful and strange Ten Blocks on the Camino Real there. The first play I was ever paid to write was put up there.
And there has been the talk of it closing, but it seems they’ll be able to be open for one more year. One of the last, great downtown theater spaces.
We were mourning for it before it was even gone.
Now we can love it for a little longer.
Alexis Clements interviews Robert Lyons, head of Soho Think Tank/The Ohio Theater about the organization and the stay of execution. Oh, and the tantalizing Ice Factory.
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