Wilma’s Terrible Timing

As South Florida begins to dig out from the damage caused by Hurricane Wilma, the region’s theatres are struggling to cope with the revenue loss that will inevitably be the result of continued power outages and civic chaos. “Most arts groups are hopeful that early-November shows will go on as scheduled, and once a facility’s power is restored, that should be the case.” But the weekend that the hurricane hit was opening weekend for a number of local productions, and “by the time the reviews ran (though people who didn’t get a newspaper, have Internet access or were otherwise consumed with post-hurricane life undoubtedly didn’t read them), the theaters were like the vast majority of South Florida’s population: in the dark.”