Where the Year Went: A Look Back, and Forward
We asked dozens of theatre folks about an alternately disorienting and clarifying 12 months of closure.
All Stories About COVID-19
D.C. Theatregoers Say They’re Ready to Return—in December
As theatres eye fall reopenings, a new study shows reluctance to return to normal, while also noting online viewing patterns and support for anti-racist efforts.
3 Seattle Schools Give COVID Collab a College Try
Undergraduate theatre programs join forces to combat artistic isolation and build creative community.
Relief Grants for Mid-Career Theatre Workers to Be Available
Wendy C. Goldberg’s TheFrontOffice Foundation will award money to folks impacted by the industry shutdown.
Ike Holter: Beyond the Playwright
The pandemic has given the Chicago playwright a chance to step back and rethink his approach—and he hopes theatres are doing the same.
Zoom Theatre at an HBCU: Doing the Pandemic Pivot
Last fall we learned a new way to make theatre, not only with our students but with the audience and the community.
The Subtext: Pandemic Playwriting, Part 2
This month, a check-in with the playwrights who first called in last March to see how they’ve fared in the intervening 10 months.
What Can Still Be Taught During COVID: Bodies, Voices, Dramaturgy
Deprived of regular, full-face in-person interaction, high school theatre students at Interlochen Center for the Arts have expanded other creative capacities.
Quarantine, Ventilate, Be Ready to Quit: In-Person Theatre in the Time of COVID
Recent stagings of ‘Fannie Lou Hamer, Speak On It!’ showed the possibility—and stringent protocols—of pandemic-era live theatre.
Masked and Raging, Ohio Students Make a ‘Spring Awakening’
How Baldwin Wallace University turned a ‘Totally Fucked’ year into an opportunity to film a virtual production of the rock musical.
