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Turning The Kirk Douglas Theatre Into A Center For Filming Streaming Plays Wasn’t Easy
Source: ArtsJournal.com | Posted: November 16 2020 @ 8:00 am
Just ask production manager Christopher Reardon, who worked with playwright Luis Alfaro and his retold/set in L.A. Greek trilogy of play to turn them into this stage-to-screen event. “As great as it was to return to the theater, it was scary, too. … Everybody is overjoyed, but in this weird mental place of always being […]
Theatres That Were Already Working On Flexibility Have The Advantage Now
Source: ArtsJournal.com | Posted: November 15 2020 @ 4:00 pm
As Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre director of development Jamie Clements notes, “Patrons tend to fall on a continuum between wanting fixed seats and wanting options; providing a flexible membership opened the door to those on the continuum looking for the ability to adjust.” And, obviously, 2020 demands the utmost flexibility from theatres and their patrons. – […]
The Pandemic Has Leveled The Playing Field For Smaller Theatres
Source: ArtsJournal.com | Posted: November 15 2020 @ 2:00 pm
How did a theatre in West Yorkshire get Derek Jacobi, Stephen Fry, Alfred Enoch, Rebecca Front, Celia Imrie and Griff Rhys Jones? Well, streaming makes some things a little easier. It even snagged a review in The New York Times. And it’s not alone: “With live performances either difficult or impossible since March, many other […]
Considering Alexander Hamilton’s Legal World, And The World Of The Musical
Source: ArtsJournal.com | Posted: November 15 2020 @ 1:00 pm
“Hamilton’s life in ‘musical-theater land,’ as Miranda cast it, and Hamilton’s reincarnation in legal-literature land, as Tucker framed it, remind us that where we stand determines what we see. Perspectives change. As they do, so does our understanding of history.” – Washington Post
How One Theatre Tried To Make Waiting In A Georgia Voting Line A Little More Fun
Source: ArtsJournal.com | Posted: November 15 2020 @ 11:30 am
The theatre chosen as a polling place wanted to make sure first-time voters had a good time just the way they tried in non-Covid times to make sure first-time theatregoers enjoyed their time. So: Snacks, apolitical music, “line-warming” activities, a slideshow, and more. “One of the women working with me day of said, ‘More theaters […]
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