Carl Hoover posted an article to his blog today about other Texas theatres facing programming problems this season. It fully confirms what I've said about the current season of the Waco Performing Arts Company. It's also an amusing exclamation point for my tongue-in-cheek reply to someone who absurdly tried to use my words in my previous post about programming to suggest that I was somehow badmouthing the people of Waco. The reason some people are willfully ignorant is always a mystery to me...

At any rate, programming for presenting houses is a difficult and interesting challenge. Theatres all over the country are facing it right now. I also think there's something else at play here. Not only are fewer good new shows available, but I think that during times of economic and/or social strife, people tend towards the artistic equivalent of comfort food. And the thing about comfort food is that everyone knows it's not the right thing for you. It won't make you feel better, it won't nourish you, and there's no chance it will improve your outlook. Same goes for "comfort Art." But really, and I've spoken about it before, my thoughts about comparisons of parallels between Americans' attitudes towards food and Art is a whole other post.

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