How the Shows Went On, and How They May Again
2 new documentaries look at Broadway as it was, while a third gives us a glimpse of our possible post-COVID future.
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2 new documentaries look at Broadway as it was, while a third gives us a glimpse of our possible post-COVID future.
Theatre is happening and we are here to cover it, in spite of it all.
This moment has pushed us past even our most prescient preparations for crisis and challenge, but we can face it together.
Poised between a troubled but familiar past and the uncertain promise of a transformed future, is it any wonder we’re having trouble with the next act of our lives?
The 8 individuals in this year’s cohort don’t just make theatre; over the past year and going forward, they are all about making change.
The pandemic led to innovative, alternative forms of theatre. Can theatre criticism keep up?
As theatremakers celebrate the return to in-person, in-venue performances, it’s imperative to keep open the doors offered by digital theatre and celebrate its place alongside the stage.
The downtown artist didn’t ever expect or hope to be on Broadway, but her docutheatre piece ‘Is This A Room’ has defied expectations all along.
When the pandemic hit her career on both sides of the Atlantic, she got the unique chance to help develop productions in gestation.
Teaching design remotely had some upsides, she learned, but she’s eager to get her hands back on her craft and its tools.