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Theater News for the Week of July 30th

By Bennett Liebman


Broadway Will Require All Audiences To Be Vaccinated For Covid

https://deadline.com/2021/07/broadway-covid-vaccinations-vaccine-required-audiences-broadway-league-1234806600/


Broadway theaters will require audience members to be vaccinated

https://broadwaynews.com/2021/07/30/broadway-theaters-will-require-audience-members-to-be-vaccinated-masked/


Broadway In Hollywood To Require Proof Of Vaccination At Its Shows

https://deadline.com/2021/07/broadway-in-hollywood-to-require-proof-of-vaccination-ticketholders-hamilton-1234802899/


Actors' Equity & B'way League Announce for Reopening

https://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Actors-Equity-the-Broadway-League-Announce-Safety-Plans-for-Reopening-Including-Mandated-Vaccines-for-the-Workforce-20210729


COVID Vaccines Are Mandated for Broadway Workforce

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/arts/covid-vaccines-mandated-broadway-workforce-actors-equity-broadway-league-deal-1234990406/


'Ethel Waters' set to usher in 'new era' for Cap Rep

https://dailygazette.com/2021/07/26/musical-biography-ethel-waters-set-to-usher-in-new-era-for-cap-rep/


See which NY theaters, museums, arts venues landed $1.2 billion

https://www.syracuse.com/politics/2021/07/see-which-ny-theaters-museums-arts-venues-landed-12-billion-in-federal-covid-relief-grants.html


It's opening night at Shea's Performing Arts Center

https://www.wkbw.com/news/local-news/its-opening-night-at-sheas-performing-arts-center-for-the-first-time-in-over-400-days


Sunday in the Trenches With George

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/28/theater/james-lapine-stephen-sondheim-sunday-in-the-park.html


'Pass Over' Is the First Broadway Play to Open Post-Lockdown

https://www.vulture.com/article/pass-over-antoinette-chinonye-nwandu.html


Will Broadway theater be closed again?

https://californianewstimes.com/will-broadway-theater-be-closed-again-due-to-the-indian-coronavirus-stamp/454716/


How Broadway is working to ensure that covid doesn't bring the curtain down

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/broadway-covid-prevention/2021/07/29/083eeb70-eeea-11eb-bf80-e3877d9c5f06_story.html


D.C. Theatregoers Still Hesitant to Return in 2021

https://www.americantheatre.org/2021/07/29/d-c-theatregoers-still-hesitant-to-return-in-2021/


COVID-19 Delta variant threatens theater plans

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/newsletter/2021-07-24/essential-arts-covid-delta-variant-theater-concerts-essential-arts


Due to variant concern, DC theatergoers still reluctant to return

https://dcmetrotheaterarts.com/2021/07/28/due-to-variant-concern-dc-theatergoers-still-reluctant-to-return-says-new-study/


Amar Ramasar, City Ballet Dancer, To Retire

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/27/arts/dance/city-ballet-texting-scandal-amar-ramasar-retire.html


A critic responds to a dad's defense of his playwright son

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-07-26/column-a-father-writes-to-a-critic-who-panned-his-sons-play-the-critic-responds


With three new musicals, Washington reemerges as major Broadway tryout town

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/musicals-broadway-tryout-washington/2021/07/21/93459db2-e8a6-11eb-97a0-a09d10181e36_story.html


Actors' Equity Blows Open the Doors

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater_dance/musicals-broadway-tryout-washington/2021/07/21/93459db2-e8a6-11eb-97a0-a09d10181e36_story.html


Front Porch partners with the Huntington Theatre with an aim toward becoming a sustainable Black arts organization

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/07/27/arts/front-porch-partners-with-huntington-theatre-with-an-aim-toward-becoming-sustainable-black-arts-organization/


Theater podcasts gain popularity

https://dcmetrotheaterarts.com/2021/07/29/theater-related-podcasts-gain-popularity/


Andrew Lloyd Webber says COVID vaccine passports for theatres 'inevitable'

https://news.sky.com/video/andrew-lloyd-webber-says-covid-vaccine-passports-for-theatres-inevitable-12361570


Australia's arts sector shredded by Covid shutdown

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/jul/26/funding-for-australias-arts-sector-needs-a-public-led-reboot-to-survive-report-finds

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