UNC School of the Arts Announces 2020-21 Season
The lineup will feature digital productions, a site-specific project, an audio play, and more.
Coverage of theatres in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia.
The lineup will feature digital productions, a site-specific project, an audio play, and more.
The season will feature a mix of virtual readings and discussions, with a return to the stage scheduled for spring 2021.
Pandemic programming at Barter Theatre and Cadence Theatre Company comprises drive-in performances and short-film commissions, respectively.
The Florida theatre’s productions of ‘Billy Elliot’ and ‘Three Musketeers’ have been postponed and canceled, respectively.
Adanna Paul and Savannah Miller will be the first participants in the Young Playwrights in Progress program, receiving readings in 2021.
The reimagining of Playwrights’ Arena will allow six students or alumni to work directly with Arena Stage dramaturg Jocelyn Clarke.
The North Carolina company will present a mix of virtual and socially distant theatre.
The playwright will develop a new play with students of Florida’s Hillsborough Community College.
The Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing at Emory University is researching safety protocols that could help Atlanta theatres eventually reopen.
In response to demands for change, the company will pay playwrights during rehearsal, eliminate punishing ’10 out of 12′ tech weeks, and strive for greater pay equity.