Theater News for the Week of December 11th

By Bennett Liebman

As COVID-19 continues to worsen, nation needs a New Deal for the arts

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/12/08/covid-continues-worsen-nation-needs-new-deal-arts-column/3812329001/

Is it Still Broadway If It's Hosted by Tina Fey

https://www.vulture.com/2020/12/best-of-broadway-nbc-tina-fey-best-and-worst-moments.html

Brighter days for arts forecast in Biden administration

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/12/the-arts-may-heal-under-biden-harris-administration-say-experts/

November 2020: Ticket Sales & Philanthropy

https://trgarts.com/blog/benchmark-insights-nov-2020.html

Power Lawyers 2020: New York's Top 20 Entertainment Attorneys

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/power-lawyers-2020-new-yorks-top-20-entertainment-attorneys

TCG Releases Theatre Facts 2019, a Pre-Pandemic Snapshot of the Field

https://www.americantheatre.org/2020/12/09/tcg-releases-theatre-facts-2019-a-pre-pandemic-snapshot-of-the-field/

Rerouting the Casting Pipeline

https://www.americantheatre.org/2020/12/10/rerouting-the-casting-pipeline/

'Arts organizations are back in business': NYC performances prep for Spring 2021

https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-covid-nyc-culture-van-bramer-20201208-wgufmokbbbdanjmlsi4l54kdty-story.html

Moves in Culture

https://www.nytco.com/press/moves-in-culture-2/

'Six' Tries to Get Back Onstage. Again, and Again, and Again https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/09/theater/six-musical-return.html

New York Philharmonic Musicians Agree to Years of Pandemic Pay Cuts https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/arts/music/new-york-philharmonic-pay-cuts.html

Metropolitan Opera to Lock Out Stagehands as Contract Talks Stall https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/arts/music/met-opera-lockout-stagehands.html

Actors Equity Releases Statement After New Unemployment Report Reveals Highest Numbers Since September

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Actors-Equity-Releases-Statement-After-New-Unemployment-Report-Reveals-Highest-Numbers-Since-September-20201210

Months After Inequity Reckoning, Flea Theater Discontinues The Bats and Other Resident Artist Groups

https://www.playbill.com/article/months-after-inequity-reckoning-flea-theater-discontinues-the-bats-and-other-resident-artist-groups

Crowd-created TikTok phenomenon Ratatouille the musical is coming to Broadway

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/dec/11/crowd-created-musical-phenomenon-ratatousical-is-coming-to-broadway

Who's Zoomin' who? Playwrights adapt by incorporating digital platforms into their scripts https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/12/09/arts/whos-zoomin-who-playwrights-adapt-by-incorporating-digital-platforms-into-their-scripts/

£165m in emergency loans given to hard-hit UK arts organisations https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/11/165m-in-emergency-loans-given-to-hard-hit-uk-arts-organisations

Best theater in 2020: In a year to forget, virtuoso performances to remember,

https://news.yahoo.com/best-theater-forget-virtuoso-performances-130055836.html