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A scanner reads the code on a ticket that the theater-goer prints at home to
provide touchless ticketing.
ry letter to theater-goers the next day on the theater’s website
saying that the Sunrise would reopen in a couple of weeks,
shows were being rescheduled, and it addressed the issue of
already-purchased tickets.
At the end of the two weeks they realized they couldn’t
reopen yet, but work on safety measures was in full swing.
Engle kept doing running updates on the website.
“We ended up having to cancel two-and-a-half months of
shows,” she said. Almost all have since been rescheduled for
2021 or early 2022.
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The Sunrise Black Box
Theatre has socially
distanced tables where
audiences can sit and
order drinks.
Signs throughout the Sunrise remind audience members to wear their masks.