Philadelphia Theatre Alliance to Shut Down June 30

According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Theatre Alliance will close up shop on June 30. The 22 year-old organization released a memo yesterday, April 11, revealing that it was 'victim both of tough economic times and the theater community's success.'

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In 1990 the organization was founded by an ad-hoc group of theatre professionals as the Performing Arts League of Philadelphia with a mission to expand awareness for all the performing arts in the Greater Philadelphia area.

Within the year, the membership had created the Annual Auditions program which thrives to this day as the one time each year that local actors can gather to be seen by the whole the theatre community at once.

By 1994 The Barrymore Awards for Excellence in Theatre had been established, reflecting the unique vitality of the theatre sector in Philadelphia and prompting a revision of the organization’s mission to focus its efforts there. In the spring of 1997, the League's membership formally adopted this new mission and changed the organization’s name to the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia.