Showbuzzness: To re or not to re?

Hamlet

Sorry for the quickie this week, folks, but there’s an important issue to discuss, and I want to set the record straight.

There’s a silly debate in the theatre world about whether theater is spelled with an er or an re at the end. There are the theatre snobs who insist that thea-tah is only proper when spelled the French way… and then there are the non-theater snobs who think it’s pretentious to spell it any way other than the American “theater.”

For the record, I’m a fan of equal opportunity spelling. If you feel strongly one way or the other… well you’re going to have to just deal with it as I plan to use both of them interchangeably. I’m a Gemini. We do things like that. Case closed!