Plains: ‘Too Stubborn to Go Away’
Theatres in Nebraska, Minnesota, and Missouri work to adapt to the new reality and plan for the next chapter.
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Rocky Mountain: Short-Term Vs. Long-Term Thinking
Theatres in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, and Idaho keep the theatre faith, and many or most employees, in hopes of a full return.
South Atlantic: Resetting Expectations
Theatres in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina focus on how they can best serve their communities when they can’t do it from their stages.
South Central: Social Distance and Social Justice
Theatres in Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana face budget shortfalls, existential questions, and a new sense of purpose.
Southwest: Hot Spot Survival
As the pandemic rages through Arizona, Texas, and Oklahoma, theatres adjust their models and make new commitments, while one New Mexico theatre goes under.
West: Ready or Not, Change Is Coming
Theatres in California, Oregon, Nevada, and Washington know they can’t go back to normal, and increasingly they’re seeing they wouldn’t want to anyway.
Mean and Green, With a Splash (or More) of Ankara Print
3 costume designers indulge their ’80s nostalgia to varying degrees in 3 separate productions of Jocelyn Bioh’s ‘School Girls.’
What Clothes After Closure? 4 Young Designers Have Some Ideas
Willa Kim Scholarship recipients are using it to supplement their costume design skills, from watercolor painting to digital rendering.
How Willa Kim Stretched and Shaped Costume Design
The acclaimed designer, who worked on more than 200 productions in a 7-decade career, was known for sculpting her work on actors’ and dancers’ bodies.
No Show
If we can’t have theatre until we can gather again safely, what are U.S. theatres and artists going to do in the meantime, and after?
