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Theater News for the Week of February 12th

By Bennett Liebman


Theatrical unions unveil diversity, equity and inclusion agenda

https://broadwaynews.com/2021/02/11/theatrical-unions-lay-out-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-agenda/


100 Broadway People to Follow on Twitter

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/BroadwayWorlds-100-People-To-Follow-on-Twitter-in-2021-2021021

'Within a matter of hours, your entire industry is gone

https://finance.yahoo.com/video/within-matter-hours-entire-industry-201401565.html


An innovative Georgetown lab looks to theater to quell political fires

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/georgetown-lab-empathy-theater/2021/02/11/ddd67580-6a44-11eb-9f80-3d7646ce1bc0_story.html


Broadway's Rocky Road to Recovery

http://www.ourtownny.com/city-arts/broadway-s-rocky-road-to-recovery-BY1504300


New Broadway League Chair Lauren Reid on the work ahead

https://broadwaynews.com/2021/02/08/new-broadway-league-chair-lauren-reid-on-the-work-ahead/


Andrew Cuomo Sets Tentative Summer Return for Some Theaters

https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/cuomo-sets-tentative-summer-2021-return-for-some-theaters-72641/


New York arts initiative 'NY PopsUp' begins Feb. 20

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/arts-recovery-new-york/2021/02/08/a5cb45de-6a22-11eb-ba56-d7e2c8defa31_story.html


5 things Chicago needs to learn from NY PopsUp

https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/chris-jones/ct-ent-new-york-popsup-chicago-learns-jones-0214-20210211-2ovvol77bjdcvbylabt3ok2kuu-story.html


NY to host 'pop-up' shows to boost arts industry amid COVID

https://nypost.com/2021/02/08/ny-to-host-pop-up-shows-to-boost-arts-industry-amid-covid/


Amber Ruffin Joins Broadway-Bound 'Some Like It Hot' As Co-Writer

https://deadline.com/2021/02/amber-ruffin-some-like-it-hot-broadway-musical-cowriter-marc-shaiman-scott-wittman-1234691149/


What it's like for Seattle theaters to transition leadership

https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/theater/what-its-like-taking-over-a-seattle-theater-during-a-pandemic/


Joe Allen, 'He Missed Nothing': Nathan Lane, Chita Rivera and Others on Joe Allen

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/theater/Broadway-memories-joe-allen.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nyttheater


More Joe Allen, Joe Allen Dies: Legendary Restaurateur To Broadway Theater Folk And The Fans Who Loved Them Was 87

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/joe-allen-dies-legendary-restaurateur-152129011.html


Actor's homophobia made her commercially toxic, Actor's homophobia made her commercially toxic

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/feb/08/actors-homophobia-made-her-commercially-toxic-tribunal-told


LaGuardia High School Celebrates Forty Years of 'Fame'

https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2021/02/10/laguardia-high-school-celebrates-forty-years-of--fame-?cid=share_twitter


Broadway ensembles are shrinking

https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/broadway-ensembles-shrinking-dance-72625/


The Trump impeachment trial: What Shakespeare would have seen

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-02-09/trump-impeachment-trial-hamlet-shakespeare-insurrection


Anna Deavere Smith on Forging Black Identity

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/03/the-last-of-the-nice-negro-girls/617786/


Theatres plot open-air comeback for summer

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/feb/09/outdoor-theatre-reopening-stages-coronavirus-arcola-london


Inside the Broadway Community Project

https://www.playbill.com/article/inside-the-broadway-community-project-making-merchandise-not-just-swag-but-a-piece-of-theatre-magic


Kirill Serebrennikov Is Fired as Director of Gogol Center

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/theater/kirill-serebrennikov-gogol-fired.html

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