Off Broadway Takes Center Stage

NYC & Company announced a new promotion to boost ticket sales at 30 off-Broadway productions throughout the city that includes various incentives.

One statistic stands out in this article: More than 25% of the once two hundred off-off-Broadway theaters have closed in the last five years, and theater executives estimated that another 25% will disappear within the next 16 months because of the economic crisis.

I hope City leaders are giving some thought to whether NYC can remain a cultural mecca if it loses more than half of it's Off Off Broadway heaters, which are afterall incubators of talent and new productions, some of which actually end up on Broadway.