{"id":648200,"date":"2010-01-29T14:49:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-29T19:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a82ad737970b"},"modified":"2010-01-29T14:49:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-29T19:49:31","slug":"pasadena-playhouse-to-close-feb-7-because-of-money-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/648200","title":{"rendered":"Pasadena Playhouse to close Feb. 7 because of money woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef011572288849970b-pi\" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef011572288849970b-pi\" style=\"cursor: -moz-zoom-out; width: 611px; height: 407px;\"><\/img><\/p>\n<p>The Pasadena Playhouse will close Feb. 7 after the final performance of &quot;Camelot,&quot; leaving its future in jeopardy as company leaders explore ways out of its lingering financial woes, including a possible bankruptcy filing. <\/p>\n<p>Stephen Eich, the executive director hired in June, said the playhouse is essentially out of cash. It faces more than $500,000 in immediate bills, plus more than $1.5 million owed on bank loans and other debts that have dogged the nonprofit company since the mid-1990s.<\/p>\n<p> Thirty-seven employees will be out of work when the playhouse closes, Eich said. He said he isn&#8217;t sure yet about whether or how the playhouse&#8217;s 8,000 subscribers will be reimbursed. <\/p>\n<p>The playhouse, which opened in 1917, was designated in 1937 as the state theater of California and has hosted a multitude of actors who went on to become stars. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/arts\/la-et-pasadena-playhouse30-2010jan30,0,1723543.story\">Read the full story here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Mike Boehm<\/p>\n<p>Photo: L.A. Times file<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pasadena Playhouse will close Feb. 7 after the final performance of &quot;Camelot,&quot; leaving its future in jeopardy as company leaders explore ways out of its lingering financial woes, including a possible bankruptcy filing. Stephen Eich, the executive director hired in June, said the playhouse is essentially out of cash. It faces more than $500,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2622,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2ICQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}