DePere’s Home for Performances – The Green Room

Chad Nehring, co-owner of The Green Room here again. I wanted to give you an update on our re-opening plans.

After lots of thought and consideration including surveys of most of our performers and all of our bar and box office staff; consultations and informational meetings with local leaders, Chambers of Commerce, and the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation I have decided to not resume public performances at The Green Room until early September.

There’s a few reasons for this:

1. We have a relatively small theatre, and we want to be sure that we can practice the current social distancing practices (whatever they may be at the time).
2.  Our performers work very closely together on stage. I want to make sure they are comfortable.

3. We want to be certain all of our food & beverage services have best practices in place.  (On that note, we’ve got some wicked cool tech-style ways of ordering beverages in the works….it’s neat…and that’s all I’m saying for now!)

4.  We know most of us like to take advantage and be outdoors during our short Wisconsin summers….and we figure this summer…even more so.

5.  It’s harder to laugh with a mask on.

I do feel that our governmental leaders need to work together to find a common sense approach that allows businesses to be open and also practice safe health standards.  Never ending politics doesn’t get us there.

So, we look forward to seeing you in September!  We’ve been doing this for over 30 years, and we will be #AlwaysLaughing !  Enjoy a full slate of virtual events on our Calendar of Events to take you through summer, and our Quarantix special (below) continues!