It was a long, hot summer.(trends & events)(theatre buildings destroyed by fire)(Berkeley Repertory Theatre)(Plowshares Theatre Company)(North Shore Music Theatre)
American Theatre, September, 2005
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This past summer, fires consumed the warehouse, set properties, even the stage of three busy nonprofit theatre companies that were left scrambling to pick up the pieces.
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BERKELEY, CALIF.: A three-alarm fire broke out in the scene shop of Berkeley Repertory Theatre in late June causing damages of $500,000-$1 million to the company's building. Located at Fifth and Gilman Streets, the shop had housed for 15 years every piece of the theatre's carpentry, metalwork and painting equipment. No one was inside the warehouse at the time of the accident, caused ...
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