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In Kansas Metropolis and throughout the nation, efficiency venues and artists have needed to make changes on account of extra excessive climate occasions.

And in relation to local weather change, there’s one factor arts organizations must do: “Put together.” That is in response to Karin Rabe, properties grasp on the Alley Theatre in Houston, the place flooding is a rising concern. 

Here is how wildfires, floods and excessive temperatures are affecting theaters within the west, south and our space.  

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Credit score Kim Budd / Oregon Shakespeare Pageant

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The Oregon Shakespeare Pageant’s outside Allen Elizabethan Theatre seats 1,200 individuals.

Massive wildfires throughout the western United States have brought about lack of life and property. The fires additionally affect air high quality, a urgent concern for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. 

Wildfires have all the time been part of life within the Pacific Northwest, common supervisor Ted DeLong stated, however they’ve gotten “longer and larger and extra extreme,” particularly since 2013. 

The pageant opened in 1935, and now attracts about 400,000 individuals a season to its three levels, together with the outside Allen Elizabethan Theatre. The employees screens air high quality within the Rogue Valley intently, since poor situations can cancel a present.

In 2013, they cancelled 10 performances. In 2018, it was near 30 performances that had been both cancelled or relocated. And it prices the group cash.

“In 2018 alone, we misplaced round $2 million associated to smoke. And there have been unhealthy years earlier than that, too,” DeLong stated. “So it has been a multimillion-dollar state of affairs for us within the final six years.”

This season, the pageant moved matinees indoors to a close-by 400-seat highschool theater. However, DeLong stated, it’s not what audiences anticipated.  

“It’s not an outside theater, which is which is sort of a one-of-a-kind factor,” he stated, “and, we discovered that audiences actually most popular to not come in any respect or to come back for a a lot shorter time period and purchase fewer tickets.”

So, in 2020, DeLong says the pageant will take a threat and keep within the outside theater so long as they will. They usually’ll begin performances every week early, as they did in 2019. 

They’ve additionally used grant cash for putting in tools to improve their indoor venues and artist housing to maintain smoke out and clear air in.

“It is actually been, as a lot as we will, a high to backside have a look at our amenities and our operations and our calendar to determine how we will handle by way of these smoky situations that we face,” he stated.

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Credit score courtesy The Alley Theatre

Waterlines mark the floods from Hurricane Harvey (in orange) and Tropical Storm Allison (in yellow).

Flooding is a rising concern for Midwestern states and within the South, particularly coastal states like Texas.

Karin Rabe is the properties grasp on the Alley Theatre, a 70-year-old theater in downtown Houston, which presents new performs and classics on its two levels. When Tropical Storm Allison brought about flooding in 2001, she stated it was handled like a one-time occasion.

“And storms got here and went over time,” she stated, “(Hurricane) Rita was one, (Hurricane) Ike was one other. And we had been advantageous.

“After which, Hurricane Harvey got here, and you realize, we had been sort of enterprise as standard.”  

However Harvey wasn’t enterprise as standard for Texas or Louisiana in 2017. The Class 3 hurricane brought about an estimated $75 billion in damages in Houston alone, together with the Alley Theatre’s downstairs theater and foyer. 

“Someone posted a video on Fb of water operating by way of the tunnel system, proper exterior our Neuhaus Theatre,” Rabe stated, “and I knew then that we had been underwater.”

Nineteen toes of water flooded the theater, together with the house the place about 87,000 props had been saved. The majority of the china, lighting, glassware and sword inventory was saved, Rabe stated. However, “all of our linens had been gone,” she stated. “All of our paper items and books had been destroyed.”

Since Harvey, the Alley Theatre has made lots of modifications, equivalent to extra floodgates, flood-resistant doorways, stronger foyer glass and safer storage methods.

And Rabe talks to individuals across the nation about how you can get began on their very own catastrophe preparedness plans.

“, none of us ever desires to assume it’s going to occur to us, however what if it does?” she stated. “And it is actually about looking for the time once you’re not in an emergency state of affairs to place in direction of one thing that appears distant.” 

It is getting hotter, wetter, and extra humid in Kansas and Missouri on account of a altering local weather. There’s normally extreme warmth not less than two or 3 times in the course of the summer season months, and that is solely getting worse.

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Starlight put in 4 mega followers on the finish of 2017 to maintain prospects cool in sizzling climate within the 2018 season.

It is a problem for outside theaters like Kansas Metropolis’s Starlight Theatre.

“Clearly, with an outside theater, we’re very involved,” President and CEO Richard Baker stated.

The venue opened in Swope Park in 1950. With almost 8,000 seats, it hosts live shows and Broadway musicals.

In late 2017, Starlight put in 4 mega-fans to deal with the warmth. The followers, hooked up to 35-foot tall poles, generate a 4 mph breeze when working at full velocity and on the similar time. It is an innovation Baker borrowed from the Muny in St. Louis, which put in the same system in 2013. 

“We are likely to have rather less rain than we had earlier than — not less than, it has been dodging the reveals for us,” Baker stated. “However there is not any query the warmth is a much bigger drawback than the rain, however the followers have been an enormous assist in that.” 

And, since 2015, Starlight has prolonged its season by way of the winter months, changing the stage right into a 1,200-seat indoor theater.

Different space theater firms are beginning to sort out local weather change in a approach they could know finest — by placing on a present. In November, Theatre Alliance Kansas City, a collective {of professional} theaters, hosted an evening of readings of 10 quick performs as a part of a global initiative referred to as Climate Change Theatre Action. 

Gary Heisserer, an affiliate dean of educational affairs at Graceland College who serves on the inventive board of the Kansas Metropolis Actors Theatre, additionally labored with school to stage 12 performs with full productions.

“We picked ones that spoke to us,” Heisserer stated. “I gravitated towards ones that had been a bit of lighter, rather less preachy and a bit of stronger on storytelling.”

Actor and director John Rensenhouse stated they received a bit of pushback from viewers members who argued local weather change is simply too political.

“I imply if we’ve to chop all politics out of artwork or theater, we’d don’t have anything,” Rensenhouse stated. “, we’re simply advocating for consciousness and consideration of the state of affairs, and the subject, that’s all we’re making an attempt to do.”

As artists, they are saying, it’s their job to lift consciousness concerning the human situation. And local weather change is a rising a part of that dialog.

All through the month of November, KCUR is taking a tough have a look at how local weather change is affecting (or will have an effect on) the Kansas Metropolis metro area.

Laura Spencer is an arts reporter at KCUR 89.3. You may comply with her on Twitter at @lauraspencer.





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