The Connelly Theater has suspended operations after its church landlord began more carefully scrutinizing show scripts and its general manager resigned.
Producers who have rented from the Connelly say they were aware that it was owned by the archdiocese, and that there was always a clause in their contract allowing the Roman Catholic Church to bar anything it deemed obscene, pornographic or detrimental to the church’s reputation. But only recently, they said, did the archdiocese seek to rigorously scrutinize scripts before approving rentals.
Well, that explains it.