Marietta’s Theatre in the Square is turning ten years old this year-and it’s marking the occasion with an ambitious fund drive designed to ensure the organization’s financial and artistic viability well into the future.
The backstory: The original Theatre on the Square went out of business during the 2008 recession. Years later, a short-lived push for a revival foundered. Then, the new owner, Raul Thomas, bought the building and, in effect, gifted it to his son, Emil, a theater student at Ball State University in Indiana.
The pair renamed the spot at 11 Whitlock Avenue Marietta’s New Theatre in the Square, eventually dropping the “new.” Emil Thomas is artistic director, picking the season, directing shows and the like and handling day-to-day matters while his father tackles the financial side…