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Playhouse building is back in action as a theater
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YOUNGSTOWN — The Youngstown Playhouse building will return to action as a theater — a little sooner than planned — when the theater company stages “Barefoot in the Park” for a two-weekend run that begins July 10.
The financially strapped community theater had closed its building in October and indefinitely halted its season, citing high heating costs and a sharp downturn in funding.
The Playhouse was to present the Neil Simon play at Boardman Center Middle School as it continued to clean and repair its own building. But Pat Fagan, Playhouse spokesperson, said Monday that the production has been moved to the theater’s long-time home off Glenwood Avenue.
Why the change? “We found out a few weeks ago that the middle school would ask us to use union stagehands, because we are not school-related,” said Fagan. “We didn’t want to incur any extra expenses. Fortunately, we had enough time to take action.”
The Playhouse building had suffered damage when a water pipe burst over the winter, and had sat empty for almost eight months. But it had been largely cleaned up for a June 20 Night at the Races fundraiser.
Read more in Tuesday’s Vindicator and Vindy.com