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Oct 09

Broadway’s reopening pushed back to at least May

By Mark Kennedy, Associated Press

Although an exact date for various performances to resume has yet to be determined, Broadway producers are now offering refunds and exchanges for tickets purchased for shows through May 30.

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Oct 08

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At this Virginia theater, the show — and the masks — must go on

By John Yang, Alison Thoet, Maea Lenei Buhre

Seven months into the pandemic, theater companies are still struggling to raise the curtain on live performances. But one regional company in rural Virginia hopes it has found a way for the show to go on -- in a way…

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Oct 02

Playing Othello as a Black woman in today’s America

By Alison Thoet, Maea Lenei Buhre

Amid nationwide protests against systemic racism, Jessika D. Williams sees parallels between racism in the play and in real life.

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Sep 23

The Met Opera will be silent this season. Its 1st Black composer will open its return

By Ronald Blum, Associated Press

The Metropolitan Opera will skip an entire season for the first time in its nearly 140-year history. Terence Blanchard’s “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” will be the company’s first presentation by a Black composer.

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Aug 13

Playwright Jeremy O. Harris doesn’t miss ‘theater in a building’

By Tommy Walters

How will theater weather the pandemic? Especially in its more fearless forms, it will always adapt to reach audiences, said the playwright behind "Slave Play."…

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Jul 23

Movie theaters implore studios to release the blockbusters

By Jake Coyle, Associated Press

Recent coronavirus spikes have forced release dates to shuffle and chains to postpone reopening to August. Now, movie houses are saying that despite far from ideal circumstances, it's time for new movies. Four months of near zero revenue has brought…

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Jun 26

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On Broadway, Black artists push for racial equity

By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport

As the Black Lives Matter movement strengthens nationwide, calls are increasing for equity in all sectors of American life -- including on Broadway. An all-star cast of Black theater artists has launched a new effort, Black Theatre United, that aims…

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May 27

Larry Kramer, playwright and AIDS activist, dies at 84

By Associated Press

Kramer's husband, David Webster, told The New York Times that Kramer died of pneumonia on Wednesday.

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Apr 23

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Why pandemic represents ‘existential crisis’ for performing artists

By Jeffrey Brown, Anne Azzi Davenport

We look to the arts for entertainment, comfort and pleasure -- but they are also an economic engine. According to government analysis, art accounts for almost $900 billion of GDP and over five million jobs. Now, many of these people…

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Mar 17

The show must go on! If you’re isolated at home, watch these performances

By Rebecca Newman

From Joe’s Pub in New York City to the Vienna State Opera, audiences can livestream a myriad of shows from across the globe without jeopardizing anyone’s health during this unusual moment of social isolation.

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