We’re on Sabbatical

for our 20th anniversary season

Wait — does this mean ITP won’t be producing any plays in 23/24? Well, not necessarily, no. But we are taking the year to reflect and regroup. I started producing in order to be part of the team that decided what stories needed to be told and how to tell them. I still love that part. But the rest of it — like figuring out where to find the money — is exhausting. The pandemic was hard on the entire theater industry, and Immediate Theatre Project was no exception, although our lack of a permanent home does give us certain advantages, like low overhead.

But costs keep going up regardless — as they should; we like paying people! — and revenues have actually been shrinking over the last decade or so. So we decided to take the year to write, plan, dream, and re-imagine what Immediate Theatre Project means now. I strongly suspect that what we strive to do is needed now more than ever. And this time of quieter, offstage, work will help us meet that need in new and better ways.

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See you on the other side.

Willie

ITP co-founder and current Artistic Director