Story 1: Poor Richard’s Players – The Playhouse LV
1) Janna Karel
2) “Recent closures could mean big trouble for local theater community”
3) Las Vegas Review-Journal
4) 3/17/2020
5) This story was written right as the 8-week stay at home order began in Las Vegas, forcing local theaters to shut down along with the rest of the city. The article chronicles a few different theaters, including The Playhouse LV, through their concerns on what the shutdown means and the potential financial challenges that await them as the city-wide quarantine drags on. Their chief concern is how they will pay rent in their newly opened building.
Citation 2: https://lasvegasweekly.com/ae/stage/2019/mar/07/vegas-company-poor-richards-players-builds-theater/
1) C. Moon Reed
2) “Itinerant Vegas company Poor Richard’s Players builds a theater to call home”
3) Las Vegas Weekly
4) 3/7/2019
5) This story follows Poor Richard’s Players as they christen their new permanent location with the opening of The Playhouse LV on Decatur Blvd. There is nothing but optimism as they embark on creating theater “in a unique way” now that they have found a lasting place to call home.
1) Jessica Gelt
2) “’We’re driving straight up the cliff’: Theater is back, but recovery proves perilous”
3) Los Angeles Times
4) 5/11/2022
5) This story narrates through the challenges local theaters are facing as they try to return to full strength and operation capacity from the pandemic shutdown. The story uses the local LA scene for examples but examines the issue from a national perspective as well. The story reports survey data collected from McKinsey & Co. and SMU DataArts giving tangible statistics on the hardships local theaters are facing across the country. The chief issues are lower audience numbers, rising rent, inflation and the exhaustion of government relief grants.
Story 2: Vanessa Booth / UNLV’s Scarlet & Gray
1) Natalie Bruzda
2) UNLV student newspaper changing name to The Scarlet & Gray Free Press
3) Las Vegas Review-Journal
4) 11/28/2016
5) The story initially begins with the name change of UNLV’s student paper and why they are changing it, but then pivots to discussing the financial trouble the paper faces with reduced funding from the university. The article goes on to discuss the possibility of a partnership between the Review-Journal and other local Vegas news publications with The Scarlet and Gray Free Press to ensure the longevity of the paper.
1) Natalie Bruzda
2) Review-Journal plan would help fund UNLV student newspaper for 1 year
3) Las Vegas Review-Journal
4) 1/10/2017
5) This story is a follow-up to the previous citation. This article outlines the details of a $40,000 grant from the Review-Journal to The Scarlet & Gray Free Press. Moreover, another key point in the article is the announcement that the Review-Journal will begin printing the school paper “at no charge.” The article ends describing the fundraising efforts the school publication will undergo in efforts to guarantee the survival of the paper
1) Adam Willis
2) Bureaucrats Put the Squeeze on College Newspapers
3) The Atlantic
4) 8/23/2019
5) This story begins with an anecdote about student journalist, Rebecca Liebson, and her experience covering her Stony Brook University and the complications she faced as she butted-up against college administration. The story then transitions into the importance of a free university paper and the hardships they face as they struggle to find consistent funding either from the University or preferably by other means.
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