Theater News for the Week Ending January 7th
By Bennett Liebman
Coronavirus Is Surging. Avant-Garde Arts Festivals Are Closing.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/03/theater/festivals-covid-coronavirus.html
Broadway faces a racial reckoning.
Broadway grosses plummet after COVID-19 cancellations
https://broadwaynews.com/2022/01/05/broadway-grosses-plummet-after-covid-19-cancellations/
BroadwayCon pushed to July due to COVID-19 concerns
https://broadwaynews.com/2022/01/06/broadwaycon-pushed-to-july-due-to-covid-19-concerns/
Broadway Unions Revolt Over Proposal to Half Workers' Pay During COVID 'Pauses'
TodayTix Group acquires ticketing platform Goldstar
https://broadwaynews.com/2022/01/05/todaytix-group-acquires-ticketing-platform-goldstar/
Hugh Jackman Returning to Music Man Post COVID Quarantine, https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/arts/hugh-jackman-returns-music-man-covid-19-1235070777/
Omicron variant outbreaks have hit Broadway, so understudies have saved the day
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/03/1069323496/with-covid-outbreaks-broadways-understudies-take-center-stage
'Mrs. Doubtfire' on Broadway Is Pausing to Avoid Closing, https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/02/theater/mrs-doubtfire-broadway.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nyttheater
Welcoming Back Live Theater Doesn't Mean Agreeing About All of It
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/theater/live-theater-critics-debate.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nyttheater
'Flying Over Sunset' To End Broadway Run Three Weeks Early
https://deadline.com/2022/01/flying-over-sunset-broadway-closing-early-covid-1234904536/
'Paradise Square' Musical Postpones Broadway Opening Due To Omicron
https://deadline.com/2022/01/paradise-square-broadway-musical-postpone-omicron-covid-1234904232/
Joan Copeland, Stage and Screen Actress and Sister of Arthur Miller
Vermont entertainment venues start to require COVID booster shots
In film and theater, intimacy coordinators and directors redefine how to practice safe sets
New COVID postponements for Chicago theater
Innovation and isolation marked second year of coronavirus in Connecticut theater
Indiana theater group loses COVID case appeal in state court
Philly theater in the pandemic -- half empty or half full?
Coronavirus surge darkens N.J. stages
https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2022/01/coronavirus-surge-darkens-nj-stages.html
2021 A year in review
https://www.wamc.org/arts-culture/2022-01-02/2021-a-year-in-review
Tony Award royalty will turn out to celebrate 50 Years of Broadway musicals
https://www.washingtonpost.com/theater-dance/2022/01/05/kennedy-center-broadway-50-years-concert/
Playing 'Wit' on Borrowed Time
https://www.americantheatre.org/2022/01/06/playing-wit-on-borrowed-time/
Governments must step up and make sure live theatre isn't another casualty of COVID
New Year Highlights in Russian Theater
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/01/07/new-year-highlights-in-russian-theater-a75989
A livestreamed 'Clyde's' starring Uzo Aduba is the next best thing to being in a theater
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2022-01-06/clydes-livestream-uzo-aduba-theater