Daily News | Philly arts groups struggle to fill concert halls and theaters
In the post-pandemic era, Philadelphia’s cultural districts often look like the good old days: streets and sidewalks crosshatched with arts patrons animating the city’s parking garages, restaurants, theaters, and bars.Attendance at the Franklin Institute is back to pre-pandemic levels, but staffing is still half of what it had been.
One widely held fear is that the pandemic permanently changed what it takes to get people to leave the house. Broadly speaking, it was a tougher fall in the performing arts, where patrons are confined to a seat, than in the visual arts, where visitors may move about freely while calculating infection risk and keeping their distance. Attendance at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in fiscal year 2022 reached 84% of fiscal year 2019. The Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Matisse show, which closed Jan.
Cutting ticket prices, long a reliable strategy for some arts groups, may no longer be as useful. The Arden has traditionally offered promotional and institutional discounts for students and certain communities. Another variable in the slow arts recovery is the negative perception some patrons have of the city, considering the pandemic’s overlap with an increase in crime. For some, these fears and interactions with people who are homeless have made going to arts events a challenge.
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