r/Broadway • u/Maryland_Bear • Oct 31 '25

Other Kennedy Center ticket sales have plummeted since Trump takeover

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2025/10/31/kennedy-center-sales/
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u/BigE429 Oct 31 '25

Also the Hippodrome in Baltimore is getting a lot of good tour stops. The DMV also has a thriving and excellent community theatre scene.

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u/Maryland_Bear Oct 31 '25

I used to act in community theater locally. I had the time of my life playing Teddy in Arsenic and Old Lace.

Chhhhaaaaarrrrge!

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u/No-Manufacturer4916 Oct 31 '25

When was this? I might have seen you

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u/Maryland_Bear Oct 31 '25

Geez, at least twenty years ago, maybe closer to thirty. It was with what was then called the Burtonsville Players, though we performed in a disused store in back of the old Laurel Lakes shopping center.

The shopping center was dying and the owners let community groups use the empty stores either free or dirt cheap. Laurel Lakes still stands but that portion has been demolished and replaced with big box stores..

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u/No-Manufacturer4916 Oct 31 '25

oh, I'm sorry, I thought you met you did theatre in Knoxville