Is a theatre near you known for… shenanigans?

It has to be said.

Folks previously unfamiliar with the theatre world are paying a little more attention because of casting choices like Ariana Grande in Wicked and Hugh Jackman in The Music Man. In both cases, nasty marriage-ending affairs with costars emerged.

To the untrained eye, this is average celebrity behavior. (Maybe to a certain degree, it is.) However, I think there’s something to be said for this kind of thing being utterly rampant in certain theatre spaces.

I used to live not far from a certain pretty well known Shakespeare theatre and the shit coming out of there was wild. Two different ladies in the costume department (iirc) were married to leading male actors who cheated with two of the leading female performers. One of the men apparently tried it with almost every younger woman who worked there. Absolutely bonkers.

Are you aware of a theatre where this is a thing? Don’t name names, obviously. Do you think the happens more at the community level or the professional level? And like? Why? Are people just unable to get out of character?