LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — One other enterprise within the Las Vegas Arts District has been burglarized as thieves made off with about $10,000 in laptop computer computer systems and musical tools from Majestic Repertory Theatre, in response to the theater’s creative director.
It is not less than the fifth housebreaking reported this 12 months by companies within the Arts District. Beforehand, Atomic Model Lounge, Tacotarian (twice), Fresa’s Skate Store and Dig it Espresso have been hit. The theater is immediately throughout Essential Avenue from Good Pie, a well-liked pizza place that was focused by copper thieves in September.
Troy Heard mentioned he went to the theater on Christmas Day and found the break-in. The theater is at present darkish for the vacations, however Heard mentioned he is there daily.
He mentioned the theater’s again door was open, however he could not inform how thieves obtained the door open. Heard mentioned he would seemingly file a police report on Thursday. The theater has created a GoFundMe to assist get better the misplaced gear.
“I don’t have the energy to be angry,” Heard mentioned. Majestic Repertory Theatre is engaged on a manufacturing of Cabaret. Now, there are lots of unknowns.
Troy Heard on the 8 Information Now studios in 2022. (KLAS)
Two weeks in the past, 8 Information Now reported the break-in at Atomic Model Lounge. There seem like similarities between the break-ins.
“It was targeted. They knew exactly what they were getting,” Heard mentioned. There is no money within the theater and the issues that have been stolen will in all probability be pawned, he mentioned.
A Fb submit on Christmas Day knowledgeable followers and followers:
“It is a Blue Christmas as we have joined the ranks of our Arts District neighbors who’ve been burgled. Gauging by the quantity of kit lacking, it was a couple of individual. We’re ready to file a police report and get tape pulled – however hope we are able to get better every thing earlier than Cabaret rehearsals resume in January.
Heard mentioned the theater got here to the Arts District in 2016, and that is the primary housebreaking in that point.
The development is a disappointment to him as a result of he spends lots of time advocating for the district. He mentioned the theater is the one nonprofit arts group on the block. He sees the burglaries as “a different narrative.”
