They will be back next year

People who have theater companies, attention please. You need to know this. Do not, I repeat, do not plan your biggest and coolest thing yet for a presidential election year in Washington. No one goes to the theater in a presidential election year in this town. This is my third since I have been living here, and I am sick of every four years getting a thousand emails to please help fill the seats at a thousand different shows.

It's not the theater regulars that stop coming, it's, well everyone else. Your not doing anything wrong, other than mounting a big production in a year you should mount a small one. Normal people stop coming to the theater because there is better theater on MSNBC and CNN. Lawyers are working on campaigns, staffers are working on campaigns, retires are working on campaigns...everyone is working on campaigns. Thats what make the economy of this city go, and that is what is going to happen here every four years, period. Plan for it. Take it into account. If someone you know is starting a theater company, tell them not forget that DC has no audience in a presidential election year. Stop the madness.

Thank you.