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‘Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin’ to Stream Live as Benefit for U.S. Arts Orgs

Proceeds from the musical event, streamed from Florence, Italy, will go 13 theatres and institutions Felder has called home.

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?

The Guthrie’s first TD and a longtime theatre dean at USC, he launched countless careers with his unassuming, get-to-work ethos.

The lineup will include a remount of Manhattan Theatre Club’s ‘Jitney’ and world premieres by Anna Ziegler and Justin Huertas.

The funding will support commissions from emerging playwrights Joanna Garner, Lily Houghton, and C.A. Johnson.

The slate also includes Christina Ham’s Nina Simone musical, a play by Steven Dietz, a staging of Khaled Hosseini, and more.

The awards will fund extra time for the development of 27 new productions across the country.

The Public Theater spreads its community-based theatre model to Detroit, Dallas, and Seattle.

The season will include world premieres from Lauren Yee, David Grimm, and Erica Schmidt.

For the Seattle Rep run, the design team turned the immersive show into one that can play in a proscenium.