Theatre Puget Sound and Cornish Vie for Seattle Center Playhouse Lease

Michael van Baker — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 16:57:45 +0000

The Theatre Puget Sound "arts incubator" proposal represents, perhaps, a bigger break with Playhouse management past--Cornish replacing Intiman as the singular primary tenant isn't structurally that different, except for being a college, instead of a theatre)--but it may be a good break. As TPS makes clear, they are not a producing organization, so their management of the Playhouse can be devoted to its maximal usage.

Andrew Russell and the Intiman in October

Michael van Baker — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:51:48 +0000

Still, nothing in the announcement of Russell as consulting artistic director cast new light on how Intiman planned to reinvent itself as a company that wouldn’t financially crash and burn in spectacularly public fashion. Last fall, Intiman’s managing director left abruptly, a substantial amount of debt was “discovered,” and a desperate fundraising drive’s “success” was followed by the news that Intiman would close its doors.

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Theatre Puget Sound and Cornish Vie for Seattle Center Playhouse Lease

Andrew Russell and the Intiman in October