Racine Theater Guild is preparing with full normalcy for the return of live theater, perhaps ‘a few years’ away | Local news

However, many of the volunteers are ready. They say, “I can’t wait to come back. I can’t wait, ”said Doug Instenes, Managing Director and Artistic Director of the Racine Theater Guild.

Marketing and Development Director Jocelyn Fish understands her passion for the return of live theater.

“You want to create,” said Fish. “This is your place to play.”

Instenes estimates that the waiting time can be a little longer, maybe a few months. He assumes that the reopening will take place gradually.

They won’t reopen with a big musical that will clutter the stage and need an audience to sit shoulder to shoulder to pay for because musicals are notoriously expensive.

Instead, he plans to open with smaller shows, an actor or two on stage, and socially detached seating.

The theater’s theater reading committee is considering future shows and they are definitely considering what the community would like to see after COVID.

Instenes said humorously, “Not ‘Death of a Salesman'”, a painfully sad tragedy by Arthur Miller.

He assumes that the early post-COVID shows will be rather weird and / or inspiring.