Theater News for the Week of June 11th

By Bennett Liebman

The government vows to fix a plagued relief program for live-event businesses

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/06/10/business/economy-stock-market-news#sba-shuttered-venue-grants

Movie Theaters, Live Venues Call for Delayed COVID Relief Grants

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/movie-theaters-live-venues-delayed-covid-relief-grants-1234966206/

A decade after his fraud conviction, theatre producer Garth Drabinsky will see his comeback project

https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/stage/2021/06/07/a-decade-after-fraud-conviction-theatre-producer-garth-drabinskys-new-comeback-project-is-bound-for-broadway.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

Returning to live theater is a midsummer night's dream

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/06/11/metro/returning-live-theater-is-midsummer-nights-dream/

Actors Fund re-elects Brian Stokes Mitchell, appoints two new board members

https://broadwaynews.com/2021/06/10/actors-fund-re-elects-brian-stokes-mitchell-appoints-two-new-board-members/

Andrew Lloyd Webber risking arrest for June London theater reopening plan

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/andrew-lloyd-webber-risking-arrest-june-london-theater-reopening

Want 'Springsteen On Broadway' Tickets? Get In Line And Prepare To Pay

https://deadline.com/2021/06/springsteen-on-broadway-ticket-prices-1234773143/

How Lin-Manuel Miranda and Friends Made an Old Bookstore New

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/theater/drama-book-shop-lin-manuel-miranda.html

The Drama Book Shop NYC Design by David Korins

https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/the-drama-book-shop-nyc-design-36932216

Theatre as Healing Ritual: How Afrofemononomy Worked the Root

https://www.americantheatre.org/2021/06/09/theatre-as-healing-ritual-how-afrofemononomy-worked-the-roots/

No Broadway Shows? No Problem. Walking Tours Fill a Void

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/10/theater/broadway-up-close-tour-guide.html

Shubert Foundation Grants $32.1 Million to 575 Theatres and Performing Arts Organizations

https://www.playbill.com/article/the-shubert-foundation-grants-321-million-to-575-theatres-and-performing-arts-organizations

Broadway's Post-Pandemic Future

https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2021/june/broadway-s-post-pandemic-future-.html

Broadway League announces inaugural Juneteenth event

https://broadwaynews.com/2021/06/08/broadway-league-announces-inaugural-juneteenth-event/

'To Kill a Mockingbird' returns to Broadway with original star

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/2021/06/10/to-kill-mockingbird-broadway-jeff-daniels-celia-keenan-bolger/7634787002/

Broadway's Diversity Data Finds a Home on Counting Together Site

https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/counting-together-broadway-theater-diversity-data-website-73427/

How 'In the Heights' Recorded Its Songs for Film

https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/in-the-heights-sound-editor-lewis-goldstein-73411/

In the Heights movie interview: Lin-Manuel Miranda and others on adapting the hit musical

https://www.vox.com/22522628/in-the-heights-interview-miranda-hudes-chu

Michael Ritchie will retire from Center Theatre Group

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-06-10/michael-ritchie-retires-center-theatre-group-ahmanson

As Brian Clowdus pursues his second act, Atlanta theater artists push back

https://www.artsatl.org/brian-clowdus-pursues-his-second-act-and-atlanta-theater-artists-push-back/

Theatres pose almost no Covid risk, say Whitehall sources

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/theatres-pose-almost-no-covid-risk-say-whitehall-sources/ar-AAKSFnZ

UK's first all-black, all-female Shakespeare company aim to shine new light on Bard

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/jun/10/uks-first-all-black-all-female-shakespeare-company-aim-to-shine-new-light-on-bard

Theatre News: The Lehman Trilogy, Merry Wives, Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Summer Concert Series and The Honeycomb Trilogy

https://t2conline.com/theatre-news-the-lehman-trilogy-merry-wives-eugene-oneill-theater-center-summer-concert-series-and-the-honeycomb-trilogy/