Theater News for the Week of February 26th
By Bennett Liebman
Lincoln Center to create outdoor performance spaces this spring
https://broadwaynews.com/2021/02/25/lincoln-center-to-create-outdoor-performance-spaces-this-spring/
Arts, Entertainment and Recreation in New York City
New York City's Arts and Recreation Employment Down 66%
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/arts/nyc-arts-recreation-employment.html
California Lost 175,000 'Creative Economy' Jobs, Study Finds
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/25/arts/california-arts-funding.html
Milwaukee Rep announces reopening for live theater in April
Broadway unions lobby New York state for COBRA subsidy renewal
https://broadwaynews.com/2021/02/24/broadway-unions-lobby-new-york-state-for-cobra-subsidy-renewal/
Broadway's Dark Year
https://www.city-journal.org/live-theater-hit-hard-by-pandemic
The Birth of 'Rent,' Its Creator's Death and the 25 Years Since
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/25/theater/rent-anniversary.html
Meryl Streep Michael Cristofer Places, Please Movie Broadway love letter
You're New Here, Aren't You? Digital Theater's Unexpected Upside
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/24/theater/streaming-audience-numbers.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nyttheater
Union battle hangs over the Met, Broadway stars coming to 'Muppets' and more, amBroadway
Cultural Solidarity Fund to Give $500 Grants to NYC Theater Artists
https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/cultural-solidarity-fund-grants-for-nyc-theater-artists-72682/
Black Broadway Community Members Call for Equity and Access
COVID-19 interrupted a generation of theater artists
Douglas Turner Ward: A Lens on 'Questions That the Country Wasn't Asking'
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/theater/douglas-turner-ward-memories.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nyttheater
"Hamilton will be coming back!"
UK government to conduct review of vaccine passports
https://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/uk-government-venues-vaccine-passports-review_53434.html
Thoughts of a Colored Man Lands Broadway Theatre
https://www.playbill.com/article/thoughts-of-a-colored-man-lands-broadway-theatre
S.F. Mayor London Breed proposes arts funding
Devastating, unviable, admin overload
The magic returns after 49 weeks
https://aussietheatre.com.au/news/the-magic-returns-after-49-weeks
'Van Gogh' shows Chicagoans will flock back to live shows
In world first, Israeli theater reopens for vaccinated audiences