LCP, Interplayers Merger Going Well

At the Inlander, E.J. Iannelli reports: “T he marquee sign that now identifies the building at 174 S. Howard as the Modern Theater looks very much like the one that identified it as Interplayers. Were you to pass under it without looking (and it’s surprisingly easy to do), there’s little to indicate outwardly that anything has changed following the troubled theater’s merger with Lake City Playhouse in mid-September. The photos of past performances along the staircase are untouched. Art — currently by the renowned figurative expressionist Mel McCuddin — still hangs for sale in the Gellhorn Gallery, which continues to commemorate the same arts patron. Many of the faces are familiar both onstage and off. The only anomaly is that Executive Director George Green, pictured, who on opening nights is normally seen making the rounds through the foyer of the Lake City Playhouse in Coeur d’Alene, is here making the rounds through this foyer, smiling, greeting, shaking hands.” More here. (Photo: Inlander)