Born and raised in San Francisco, I worked for a prominent concert producer while in college and am well-versed in theater etiquette from ballet and opera to heavy metal concerts. I\u2019ve noticed over the past couple years a serious decline in theater behavior, be it audibly talking throughout the show, fiddling with cellophane snack packets throughout an aria or munching on popcorn during an intimate candlelit quartet performance.<\/p>\n
What are you thinking, San Diegans? While the prices of tickets rise, audience behavior is getting worse and worse. If residents want to continue enjoying cultural events in America\u2019s Finest City, perhaps we can step up to the plate and pay attention to what\u2019s becoming the lost art of theater etiquette.<\/p>\n
We haven\u2019t raised the bar, it\u2019s been there all the time. However, current theater-goers appear to have forgotten how to play nicely in the sandbox.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Karen J. Blevins, San Carlos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Born and raised in San Francisco, I worked for a prominent concert producer while in college and am…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1564,975,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-433935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-letters-to-the-editor","tag-opinion","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}