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Rorschach Theatre company is in exile.
The scrappy theater troupe has been hunting for months for a temporary home to finish out its 2008 season, after being bumped from its former spot at the Sanctuary Theater in Columbia Heights, a converted church space. Today, it announced that it's found one - in Georgetown's three-year-old Davis Performing Arts Center.
The new digs sound pretty swanky - according to a press release, the company will be able to have a different stage for each of its remaining productions of the year, ranging from a 230-seat proscenium stage with an orchestra pit to a gritty basement classroom.
It'll be interesting to see what the company, which always made the most of more humble quarters, will do with more spacious surroundings. More details will likely show up on the company's blog later today, which has been hinting at the announcement. The company's next show, This Storm Is What We Call Progress, opens in June.
A lot of theaters are playing musical chairs lately. Arena Stage has temporarily set up shop in Crystal City as it waits for its Waterfront base to be renovated (in the meantime, the theater's part of an exciting NEA new-play development program). And Washington Shakespeare Company has been biding its time until a developer decides Clark Street Playhouse is no more; time will tell whether the company will be homeless until its reported new digs in Arlington will be ready.
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