"We are incentivizing each one of our employees with a payment of $200 to get vaccinated," Chad Bauman said. "We believe it's incredibly important not only in terms of protecting our staff i…
"Though private-equity firms are notorious for ruthlessly wringing efficiencies out of the properties they pick up, the investors who just bought one of Chicago's most treasured cultural ins…
"What it has taken me a year to realize is how much I also miss the community of the audience " the strangers surrounding me, obscured by the dark, who have tacitly agreed to escape and exal…
The queen had the little playhouse built as part of her pretend village at Le Petit Trianon; she and her friends attended plays and operas there and even performed themselves. (Her Majesty o…
Level Forward, a company whose founders include Abigail Disney, a grandniece of Walt Disney, said on Monday that it has won the rights to adapt Walter Tevis's 1983 novel, which has become ne…
Over the last year, American Shakespeare Center"a $4.3 million theatre company in Staunton, Va., known for producing the Bard's work in repertory with a stripped-down style and a resident co…
Basically, the pandemic has changed the performing arts audience. "Fans have had access to virtual theater from all over the world. Some venues have expanded their audiences far beyond what'…
The director of a play in tech rehearsal says of the theatre building, abandoned a year ago as the pandemic swept the world, "I walked in, it was very quiet and I found myself touching every…
"The shift [to streamed performances during the lockdowns] has raised questions about whether audiences will return to theaters in the same numbers as before, and whether a blend of online a…
Presented as a "walking tour with theatrical displays," and running Feb. 19-21, the performance was not a traditional narrative play, but rather a collection of six short individual vignette…
"They're our holy fools, who " even when no one is watching " keep the art's sacred fires burning. Rehearsal isn't so much a preparation-to-show as it is a kind of religious practice " as en…
Weirder than ever before, no doubt. As the voters fill out their ballots this week and next, none of the shows they're considering have been onstage for a year, and they can't vote in a give…
"There are so many benefits to all this stuff, It's going to make theatre more accessible. It's going to help tackle the issue of diversity. It's going to enable us to tell stories in comple…
"This notion that we have to do something, that we have to find other ways to work. I was like, 'Hello, this is an opportunity to just stop. Everybody just stop. Can we really not do that?' …
Says the artistic director of a Twin Cities company, "I believe that theatre is storytelling and we are creating a new hybrid art form. It's not quite theatre in that it's video and not onst…
With the disclaimer that this wave of the research reflects current expectations about the pandemic, based on anxieties about vaccine distribution and the spread of COVID variants, and that …
"The biggest revelation, though, is that while a computer's imagination touches, somewhat randomly, on themes of love, loneliness, clowning and performance, it is most often obsessing about …
The protocols these countries have developed the past year to permit some live performances depend greatly on the magnitude of the pandemic and the efforts by government to contain it. South…
In a regular year, it's North America's largest summer theatre festival, but with the pandemic only barely starting to subside, Stratford is planning to present just a dozen or so performanc…
Actors get temperature-taking robots; there's Hamiltizer for your hands if you're rehearsing Hamilton; and then there are the actors who can't hug " so Olaf and Elsa flash each other peace s…
"'I am calling you for a poetic consultation,' said a warm voice on the telephone. 'It all starts with a very simple question: How are you?' Since March, almost 15,000 people around the worl…
"Across the country, and beyond its borders, many theaters say new audiences for their streaming offerings has been an unexpected silver lining " one that could have ramifications for the in…
"In a country where Turkish is the only official language, speaking Kurdish is sometimes seen as an act of rebellion." (It is the mother tongue of nearly 20 million people in the Turkish Rep…
"I've debated different scenarios in my life about "What is Native?" And that is like the million-dollar question, at least within Indigenous communities at this moment. There doesn't seem t…
Uyghur, a Turkic language that uses the Arabic alphabet, has about 10 million native speakers, most of them in the Xinjiang province of northwestern China. With the Chinese Communist Party e…