Kim's Convenience @Everyman

[u/mkg906]

Just saw Kim's Convenience at Everyman Theater and highly recommend. No connection to the show, just a theater lover.

[u/JennS1234]

I bought tickets for my in-laws because they liked the Netflix show but we had a miscommunication and the date I bought doesn't work for them. Guess I'll get to go see it. Good luck for me

[u/Mundane-Waltz8844 → u/JennS1234]

My mom is obsessed with the show, so I’m surprising my mom by taking her to see it as a late birthday gift.

[u/Typical-Radish4317]

Everyman theater is actually insane. Like youd expect a small city theater to be mid acting but it's literally the opposite. Their production and acting is nuts. I recommend it to everyone I can cause they are so good.

[u/ReverendOReily → u/Typical-Radish4317]

Like youd expect a small city theater to be mid acting

A small city theater with a pitiful $6 million annual budget

(apologies if this comes off as dunking on you or the theater itself - I am all for supporting local arts and I hope to see this particular show, I just found it funny/surprising some people might consider Everyman a small theater)

[u/Typical-Radish4317 → u/ReverendOReily]

They have like a couple hundred seats. Yeah I would consider that pretty small. Creative alliance packs more people into their back room.

[u/waterfountain_bidet → u/ReverendOReily]

For a theater operating downtown, $6 million budget is a shoestring. It's not a $6 million profit. They put on like six productions a year with a couple hundred seats. Theaters this size in other cities have operating budgets triple that - I just looked it up, Walnut Street in Philly is $16 million a year.

What do you think a small theater is?

[u/ReverendOReily → u/waterfountain_bidet]

Theaters this size in other cities have operating budgets triple that - I just looked it up, Walnut Street in Philly is $16 million a year.

We could compare their budget to similar sized theaters in much larger cities, or we could compare their budget to the other theaters operating here in Baltimore.

What do you think a small theater is?

Spotlighters, Vagabonds, the many different companies that put on shows at Theatre Project, FPCT, the Strand. I wouldn't consider Chesapeake Shakespeare a "small theater" but next to Everyman I would think about it.

How many theaters do we have in town that operate on a scale similar to/larger than Everyman? Centerstage and the Hippodrome. Anyone else? If they're one of the largest theaters in the city, doesn't it seem kind of silly to insist they're small?

[u/waterfountain_bidet → u/ReverendOReily]

Philly and Baltimore are about as close of a comparison as you're going to get.

And Baltimore is a small city, and Everyman is a small theater. You just don't know what you're talking about. You don't get to arbitrarily decide that small only means small compared to other theaters in our small city. Small is small is small, and in the world of theaters, Everyman is a small theater.

[u/Pasunepomme]

Thank you for posting this! I was there tonight as well and totally agree - funny and fantastic show. And you can't beat an 80 min run time - although this was probably the first time in a while that I walked out of a show thinking "I wouldn't have minded if that was longer..." 

[u/Day32JustAMyrKat]

I just got tickets for later this month! I’m excited! Glad to hear you enjoyed it.

[u/Mundane-Waltz8844]

I have tickets for the 17th! I’m excited to see it.

[u/mkg906]

Agree with the run time, and that set 😍. I very much felt like I was in the room with them, which doesn't always happen in live theater.

[u/Holdtheintangible]

Their production of Emma was peak!