Shutdown of San Diego Repertory Theatre cast a spotlight on some of the challenges theaters faced this year
In “A Tale of Two Cities,” Charles Dickens’ novel about surviving tumultuous times, the opening paragraph includes the lines: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times ... it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
Yet even with the Rep’s shutdown, other local theaters announced adventurous 2022 lineups that have made this year’s play season the most diverse in San Diego history. Theatergoers began seeing the results of these policies onstage this year. Newly launched play festivals celebrated the work of not only BIPOC playwrights, but also LGBTQ and nonbinary writers. And in July, Carlsbad’s New Village Arts rededicated its performing arts complex to local playwright and arts patron Dea Hurston. It’s believed to be the first arts center in the Western United States, and only the second in the nation, to be named after a Black woman.
Guadalupe Paz as Frida Kahlo, center left, and Alfredo Daza as Diego Rivera in San Diego Opera’s “El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego” . While there were many theater and opera achievements to celebrate in 2022, the biggest and maybe most worrisome change that has happened to San Diego theaters this past year hasn’t been onstage or behind the scenes. It has been in the audience, which has dramatically declined since the first local indoor theaters reopened in fall 2021.
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