Theater News for the Week Ending January 14th
By Bennett Liebman
'We will weather this storm': Omicron wreaks havoc on Broadway
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/jan/10/omicron-covid-coronvirus-broadway-theatre-stage
Pulitzer Prize Winning Playwright Lynn Nottage Celebrates Having 3 Shows Running In NYC At The Same Time
https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2022/01/13/lynn-nottage-clydes-mj-the-musical-intimate-apparel/
Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal Drama Critic, Dies at Age 65
https://www.wsj.com/articles/terry-teachout-wall-street-journal-drama-critic-dies-at-age-65-11642115600
Theater Festivals Are Mostly Off--But Here's What You Can See
https://www.vulture.com/2022/01/theater-festivals-are-mostly-offbut-heres-what-you-can-see.html
A Season to Savor a Cherished Musical Again and Again (and Again)
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/07/theater/caroline-or-change-multiple-views.html
'Mr. Saturday Night' casts Shoshana Bean, moves Broadway start date
https://broadwaynews.com/2022/01/12/mr-saturday-night-casts-shoshana-bean-moves-broadway-start-date/
Mockingbird,' Once a Broadway Smash, to Pause Production Amid Omicron
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/12/theater/to-kill-a-mockingbird-girl-from-north-country-broadway.html
Omicron Broadway closures include To Kill a Mockingbird, Bob Dylan show
https://ew.com/theater/broadway-to-kill-a-mockingbird-girl-from-north-country-close-covid-19/
Broadway: "To Kill a Mockingbird" Hibernating, Will Return in Smaller Nest, "Girl of the North Country" Shutting Down
'Jack Viertel Retires as Senior Vice President of Jujamcyn Theaters
https://www.playbill.com/article/jack-viertel-retires-as-senior-vice-president-of-jujamcyn-theaters
Broadway theaters play to lowest capacity of the season
https://broadwaynews.com/2022/01/11/broadway-theaters-play-to-lowest-capacity-of-the-season/
Brad Oscar Is Banking on an Encore
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/01/12/mrs-doubtfire-pandemic-hiatus/
Broadway extends mask and vaccination policy for theatergoers through April 30
Remembering Bob Saget's theater performances
https://www.amny.com/entertainment/theater/ambroadway-remembering-bob-sagets-theater-performances/
Why New York's iconic Palace Theatre is being raised 30 feet
Tributes to Sidney Poitier
How bad timing turned Pioneer Theatre's new play into a COVID-19 metaphor
https://www.sltrib.com/artsliving/2022/01/14/how-bad-timing-turned/
How Center Theatre Group is pushing forward with live shows
At N.J. theaters, the show must go on -- until it can't
https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2022/01/at-nj-theaters-the-show-must-go-on-until-it-cant.html
In London Theaters, the Show (Sometimes) Goes On
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/13/theater/force-majeure-donmar-life-of-pi-wyndhams.html
'Anything Goes' to steam into U.S. movie theaters in spring
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/broadway-new-york-london-robert-lindsay-tony-award-b1992395.html
Mark Rylance: 'Theatre is a thousand times more enjoyable than film
Appoint people of colour to senior theatre roles
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/jan/08/people-of-colour-senior-theatre-roles-pravesh-kumar
"Everybody's Talking About Jamie
https://southpasadenan.com/everybodys-talking-about-jamie-ahmanson-theatre/
News: Theatre Washington and DC area theaters unite in extending proof of vaccination and masks