Community & Culture
Curtain Call for Main Street: How Community Theaters Are Breathing New Life Into America's Forgotten Downtowns
From rust-belt towns to sun-baked Southern neighborhoods, local theater groups are doing something remarkable — they're turning empty storefronts and shuttered civic halls into beating cultural hearts. We visited five communities where the stage didn't just entertain; it rebuilt. Here's what they found on the other side of the curtain.