Theater News for the Week of January 8th
By Bennett Liebman
'Mean Girls' Won't Return to Broadway
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/theater/mean-girls-closing.html
'Mean Girls' Broadway Musical Announces Permanent Closure Due To Covid Shutdown
https://deadline.com/2021/01/mean-girls-broadway-tina-fey-closing-musical-covid19-shutdown-1234666902/
York Theatre Flooded After Water Main Break
https://www.theatermania.com/off-broadway/news/york-theatre-flooded-after-water-main-break-at-sai_91792.html
'Spamalot' Movie: Paramount Acquires Musical
When Will We Be Back in 2021, 2021 in the arts: Will we be back to live shows by, say, October?
Arts workers are building a labor movement to save a creative economy in peril
A Biden Cabinet Secretary For Arts? Advocates Are Hopeful
https://www.npr.org/2021/01/07/953937793/a-biden-cabinet-secretary-for-arts-advocates-are-hopeful
Danny Burstein on the Devastating Loss of His Wife, Fellow Broadway Star Rebecca Luker (Guest Column)
Can We Bring Back Broadway?
https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/in-focus/2021/01/03/can-we-ever-bring-back-broadway-
UK Theatre Power List, Lloyd Webber and Waller-Bridge on theatre power list for coronavirus effort
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-55571470
Shea's in Buffalo, Shea's role in community much larger than just theater
Fixing Broken Boards
https://www.americantheatre.org/2021/01/05/boards-are-broken-so-lets-break-and-remake-them/
Digital Performances are Landing with Audiences
Crowdsourced 'Ratatouille' TikTok Musical Sells $1 Million In Tickets
https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericfuller/2021/01/04/ratatouille-crowd-sources-theater/?sh=192f49071eff
Congress Approves $15 Billion In Grants To Shuttered Live Venues
Brooklyn venues see ray of hope with passage of 'Save Our Stages Act
https://www.brooklynpaper.com/brooklyn-venues-find-ray-of-hope-with-passage-of-save-our-stages-act/
State Theatre in Ithaca Raises Funds
https://ithacavoice.com/2021/01/state-theatre-reaches-160k-goal-of-save-your-seat-campaign/
Saving New York Theater: A Political Status Report
https://newyorktheater.me/2021/01/05/saving-new-york-theater-a-status-report/
Shakespeare in a pandemic
UK performers raise alarm as Brexit deal threatens EU touring