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
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
5 things Chicago needs to learn from NY PopsUp
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
What it's like for Seattle theaters to transition leadership
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'
Broadway ensembles are shrinking
https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/broadway-ensembles-shrinking-dance-72625/
The Trump impeachment trial: What Shakespeare would have seen
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
Kirill Serebrennikov Is Fired as Director of Gogol Center
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/09/theater/kirill-serebrennikov-gogol-fired.html