Theater News for the Week of March 19th
By Bennett Liebman
Theater Actors Step Up Push for Union to Allow Them to Work
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/19/theater/actors-equity-frustration-petition.html
Tourists Trickle Back to New York City
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tourists-trickle-back-to-new-york-city-11616100873
Royal George Theatre must empty
How NY PopsUp Aims to Get the Performing Arts Industry Back to Work
https://variety.com/2021/legit/news/ny-popsup-cuomo-ayodele-casel-1234933795/
Shakespeare in the Park to return
https://broadwaynews.com/2021/03/16/shakespeare-in-the-park-to-return-this-summer/
The Arts Are Coming Back This Summer
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/16/theater/summer-outdoor-performances.html?smid=tw-nyttheater&smtyp=cur
New York Raises the Curtain for Live Events
https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-raises-the-curtain-for-live-events-11615982401
Frustration Growing Among Actor's Equity Members
The Open Culture Program Faces Criticism From Actors' Equity
https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/nyc-open-culture-program-actors-equity-72869/
Roundabout launches Refocus Project
https://broadwaynews.com/2021/03/17/roundabout-launches-refocus-project-to-diversify-theater-canon/
'It has been a sort of nightmare
Michael Ball '100% backs' vaccine passport
Berlin Volksbühne theatre director resigns
Save Our Stages gains additional funding
https://broadwaynews.com/2021/03/16/save-our-stages-gains-additional-funding-ahead-of/
Fighting Viral Hate With a Hashtag
https://www.americantheatre.org/2020/03/26/fighting-viral-hate-with-a-hashtag/
Where the Year Went
https://www.americantheatre.org/2021/03/11/where-the-year-went-a-look-back-and-forward/
Here are all the precautions one S.F. theater
U.K. Theaters Mark One Year of Shutdown
https://variety.com/2021/legit/global/west-end-theater-pandemic-one-year-anniversary-1234931476/
When stages are dark, theatre lives on in your memories
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/mar/15/theatre-magic-memory
Deadline 'Company' During The Covid Shutdown
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/broadway-company-during-covid-shutdown-011722059.html
First Indoor Show in Loop?
The Rise of Audio Theater During the Coronavirus Pandemic
https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/how-audio-plays-have-changed-the-face-of-pandemic-theater-72871/
Sonia Friedman unveils season of West End plays
Texas Performing Arts
A Year Without Broadway: Laura Benanti And Christopher Jackson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tinOrb8x40