Tony Brown & Steven Litt on the CSU/CPH/PSC Move

Tony Brown and Steven Litt on the CSU Dramatic Arts/Play House/Playhouse Square move.




Here's a brief timeline of potential new homes for CSU Dramatic Arts:

• April 3, 2007: "A new plan, described publicly by university officials for the first time Monday, calls for moving the studio art and theater programs from a dark, dingy complex at the edge of campus to a dramatic new building on a high-visibility site on Euclid Avenue. Facilities for music and dance would also be part of the package." (This is, of course, pre-recession. A brand new $50 million complex may have been aiming a tad high.)

• July 2, 2008: "CSU would move its drama program, now in an old cotton factory on the campus, into the Allen. The university would manage the Allen as a downtown venue for a consortium of college theaters across the region to show off their work." (Notice in the article that Playhouse Square CEO Art Falco is a question-talker.)

• April 7, 2009: "In a blockbuster arts and real-estate deal, the Cleveland Play House will sell its longtime home in Midtown and move downtown to PlayhouseSquare's Allen Theatre in a joint venture with Cleveland State University's drama program." (CSU's in the leading paragraph of the article. Six weeks later, the follow-up article mentions CSU about half-way through. Tony Brown gives us a brief shout out 6:30 into the 7:30 video. I'm sensing a pattern...)