Theater News for the Week of November 27th

By Bennett Liebman

Theater Educators Struggle to Keep Shows Going Amid COVID-19 https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2020/11/24/theater-educators-struggle-to-keep-shows-going.html

Curtain Raisers

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/community/articles/curtain-raisers-american-jews-theater

Broadway Advocacy Coalition Names Inaugural Artivism Fellows https://www.americantheatre.org/2020/11/23/broadway-advocacy-coalition-names-inaugural-artivism-fellows/

Executive Director Tina Fallon Leaves Dramatists Guild https://www.americantheatre.org/2020/11/24/executive-director-tina-fallon-leaves-dramatists-guild/

Dinner Is No Longer Served: Theater That Built Careers Is Gone https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/theater/westchester-broadway-theatre-closed.html

A Weinstein Accuser, A Miramax Bidder, A Top Broadway Director And Hollywood's Premier Songwriter Created The First #MeToo Musical - And Then Covid Arrived

https://deadline.com/2020/11/right-girl-broadway-musical-diane-warren-susan-stroman-louisette-geiss-harvey-weinstein-theater-coronavirus-shutdown-1234609677/

'All Arts Organizations Are Media Companies Now': How the Pandemic Is Transforming Theater

https://variety.com/2020/legit/news/digital-theater-pandemic-broadway-1234836759/

What's Next for Streamed Theater?

https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/whats-next-for-streamed-theater-72176/

Will "Ratatouille The Musical" make it to Broadway?, https://www.theproducersperspective.com/my_weblog/2020/11/will-ratatouille-the-musical-make-it-to-broadway.html

Theater Blog Roundup: The Benefits of Giving Thanks, The Importance of Theater

https://newyorktheater.me/2020/11/25/theater-blog-roundup-the-benefits-of-giving-thanks-the-importance-of-theater/

Loosening a headlock

https://www.artsjournal.com/aboutlastnight/2020/11/loosening-a-headlock.html

Theatres are trapped in a painful game of 'Jeopardy!'

https://www.standard.co.uk/comment/theatres-are-trapped-in-a-painful-game-of-jeopardy-b77762.html

Black Theatre Coalition Partners With Columbia University's MFA Theatre Management and Producing Program

http://bway.ly/39axq7#https://www.broadwayworld.com/industry/article/Black-Theatre-Coalition-Partners-With-Columbia-Universitys-MFA-Theatre-Management-and-Producing-Program-20201124

Lin-Manuel Miranda: 'Death suffuses my work, and part of that is growing up in New York' https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2020/nov/22/lin-manuel-miranda-his-dark-materials-interview-hamilton

Actors' Equity, SAG-AFTRA Settle Dispute Over Filmed Theatre https://www.americantheatre.org/2020/11/20/actors-equity-sag-aftra-settle-dispute-over-filmed-theatre/

Exploring the legal world of Hamilton -- and 'Hamilton' -- in collection edited by a Drexel law professor | Book review

https://www.inquirer.com/arts/books/hamilton-and-the-law-lisa-tucker-book-review-drexel-20201118.html

Will the covid-19 vaccine mean theatre curtains can rise again?, Sonia Friedman Podcast https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2020/11/19/will-the-covid-19-vaccine-mean-theatre-curtains-can-rise-again

AMERICAN THEATRE | Second Actors' Equity Diversity Report Shows 'Incremental' Shifts https://www.americantheatre.org/2020/11/20/second-actors-equity-diversity-report-shows-incremental-shifts/