{"id":14349,"date":"2010-06-20T16:36:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-20T21:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=14349"},"modified":"2010-06-21T11:19:58","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T16:19:58","slug":"shakespeare-festivals-economic-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=14349","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare Festival&#8217;s Economic Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2010\/06\/shakespearefestival-200x133.jpg\" alt=\"Shakespeare Festival\" title=\"Shakespeare Festival\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14350\" \/>KILGORE &#8212; 2010 marks the Texas Shakespeare Festival\u2019s 25th season, and the TSF Foundation is highlighting the festival&#8217;s impact on the East Texas economy.  Among the examples:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 More than 96% of available seats were sold during the 2009 season.<br \/>\n\u2022 75% of attendees were from outside the Kilgore area.<br \/>\n\u2022 More than 75% ate out in the region before\/after attending performances.<br \/>\n\u2022 Almost 30% spent the night in the area as a result of attending performances.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 TSF has worked with more than 1,139 theatre artists from forty states, the District of Columbia, and eight foreign countries.<br \/>\n\u2022 The Festival has staged 110 productions for more than 1,181 performances including 28 plays of the Shakespeare canon, many of them more than once; 22 non-Shakespearean classics; fifteen American musicals; nine productions of a history play based on the East Texas oilfield; 24 productions for children, many of them original scripts; and a world premiere of the musical, Reveoco.<\/p>\n<p>Also of note: Recognizable TSF alumni include Michael Hall, Emmy and Golden Globe nominated actor and star of the HBO series &#8220;Six Feet Under&#8221;; Glenn Kessler, Emmy-winning writer and co-creator, writer, and executive producer for the FX series &#8220;Damages&#8221; with Glenn Close; and Danny Pino, in his seventh season as Detective Valens on the CBS series &#8220;Cold Case.&#8221;  You can go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.texasshakespeare.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.texasshakespeare.com<\/a> for more on this year&#8217;s festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KILGORE &#8212; 2010 marks the Texas Shakespeare Festival\u2019s 25th season, and the TSF Foundation is highlighting the festival&#8217;s impact on the East Texas economy. Among the examples: \u2022 More than 96% of available seats were sold during the 2009 season. \u2022 75% of attendees were from outside the Kilgore area. \u2022 More than 75% ate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=14349\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Shakespeare Festival&#8217;s Economic Impact<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-05 22:26:37","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14349"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14502,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14349\/revisions\/14502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}