{"id":70655,"date":"2021-03-22T15:43:10","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T19:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=70655"},"modified":"2021-03-22T15:43:31","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T19:43:31","slug":"scoop-toronto-theatre-shuts-doors-due-unsustainable-rent-increases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2021\/03\/22\/scoop-toronto-theatre-shuts-doors-due-unsustainable-rent-increases\/","title":{"rendered":"THE SCOOP | Toronto Theatre Shuts Doors Due To Unsustainable Rent Increases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70656\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Lower_Ossington_Theatre.jpg\" alt=\"Lower_Ossington_Theatre\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Toronto\u2019s Lower Ossington Theatre (LOT) has announced it\u2019s closing down permanently.<\/p>\n<p>Located at 100 Ossington Ave near Queen Street West, the venue stated on <span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"http:\/\/lowerossingtontheatre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">its website<\/a><\/span>, \u201cThe unfortunate truth is that The LOT helped build up an area that eventually out-priced it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes as many of Toronto\u2019s live venues are feeling the crunch from both rent increases and the fallout from government mandated closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic, preventing them from earning revenue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile it is likely no surprise by now, considering that countless other small venues have already disappeared, not to mention large national businesses, it is nonetheless heartbreaking. As a small organization that was always punching above its weight, \u201cThe LOT\u201d was a hub for hundreds of up-and-coming actors, and presented thousands of live performances over the last decade. Everyone involved should be proud of what was accomplished.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The LOT is a proscenium-style theatre that holds between 120-150 people. A historical building, it neighbours include the house where Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s assassin, James Earl Ray, hid in while on the run.<\/p>\n<p>The LOT states they will transition their website as an archive for past productions.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em>#LUDWIGVAN<\/em><\/h3>\n<p class=\"western\"><em>Get the daily arts news straight to your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em>Sign up for the Ludwig van Daily\u00a0\u2014 classical music and opera in five minutes or less <\/em><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/bowtie.mailbutler.io\/tracking\/hit\/583e6ce0-dfd0-48be-8a33-61256b3c58e3\/a01723d1-1d1d-44ee-9d0c-779ed93a798c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>HERE<\/i><\/a><\/span><em>.<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto\u2019s Lower Ossington Theatre (LOT) has announced it\u2019s closing down permanently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":70656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38476,35839,39,62,63],"tags":[2008],"yst_prominent_words":[8399,10704,8973,7843,12473,10095],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/03\/Lower_Ossington_Theatre.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-inB","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70657,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70655\/revisions\/70657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70655"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=70655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}