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