“Australian Arts Restart: Venue Capacity Rises to 75%...”
The Guardian/Nov. 19, 2020 by Kelly Burke “Live performance venues and events will be allowed to reach capacity of up to 75% in states...
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“Stage Vs Screen Becomes Union Battleground”
American Theatre/Oct. 23, 2020 by Jerald Raymond Pierce “What happens when a theatre company wants to make a movie? They may want to...
"France and Germany Lock Down as Second Coronavirus Wave Grows"
The New York Times/Oct. 28, 2020 by Martina Stevis-Gridneff “France announced a second nationwide lockdown and Germany moved to the very...
“Pushing Museums To Rethink Design”
The Art Newspaper/Oct. 7, 2020 by Nancy Keney “As US art institutions consider how they welcome visitors and guard their health in a...
“Campaign To Boost Audience Confidence”
The Stage UK/Oct. 6, 2020 by Matthew Hemley “A nationwide campaign has been launched aimed at building confidence in audiences by...
“Museums Are Opening To A New Audience…”
The Washington Post/Sept. 10, 2020 by Shannon McMahon “As cooler weather approaches, many grounded travelers will not be able to escape...
“Pilot Scheme Could Allow Tested Audiences”
Variety/Sept. 9, 2020 by Naman Ramachandran “The U.K. government is piloting a scheme in Salford from October to test audiences at indoor...
“Broadway’s Road Back Is Uncertain”
Washington Post/Sept. 8, 2020 by Peter Marks “For months now, Thomas Schumacher's dining room table has been taken over by a master list...
“What Should A Museum Look Like in 2020?”
Vanity Fair/Aug. 24, 2020 by Kimberly Drew “Black life—our joys and our oppression—has been embedded into American history since the...
“Germany puts on crowded concerts to study risks”
BBC/Aug. 22, 2020 by Staff “Scientists in Germany have held three pop concerts in a single day to investigate the risks posed by mass...
“Masked Actors And Creative Solutions”
The New York Times/ Aug. 20, 2020 by Laura Cappelle “In countries where live performances have resumed, masked audiences have become a...
“U.K. To Resume Socially Distanced Indoor Performances”
Variety/Aug. 14, 2020 by Naman Ramachandran “Indoor performances with socially distanced audiences will be permitted from Saturday in the...
“Tokyo's Kabuki-za Theatre Reopens After 5 Months”
BBC/Aug. 3, 2020 “Tokyo's famous Kabuki-za Theatre has reopened, after being closed for five months due to the coronavirus pandemic....
“Covid-19 has exposed flaws in ticketing practices…”
The Stage UK/Aug. 3, 2020 by Lyn Gardner “The imposition of quarantine and in many cases the lack of financial comeback for holidaymakers...
“National Theatre Investigates Socially Distanced Reopening”
The Stage/July 27, 2020 by Georgia Snow “London’s National Theatre is exploring the possibility of reopening its spaces while social...
“Kennedy Center Plans Return To Large-Scale Performances”
The Washington Post/July 23, 2020 by Peggy McGlone “The National Symphony Orchestra will return to the Kennedy Center Concert Hall on...
“‘The Mousetrap’ to Reopen With Social Distancing”
Theatermania.com/July 13, 2020 by David Gordon “Agatha Christie's ‘The Mousetrap,’ the longest-running show in the world, has announced...
“U.K. Allows Outdoor Music and Theatre Performances”
Variety/July 9, 2020 by Manori Ravindran Outdoor performances will be allowed to restart in the U.K. from Saturday, the government has...
“Beyond Broadway The Show Must Go On”
The New York Times/July 6, 2020 by Michael Paulson “Inside a former firehouse in Richmond, Va., a lone actor performs “The Picture of...
“Half of British public not comfortable visiting museums…”
The Art Newspaper/July 3, 2020 by Jose Da Silva “Most major UK museums announced this week that they would be opening their doors and...
“Met plans to reopen flagship building”
The Art Newspaper/June 24, 2020 by Nancy Kenney “The Metropolitan Museum of Art says it plans to reopen its flagship building on Fifth...
June 26, 2020: On Sugarplums, Mixed Forecasts and Ah, Paris
Good day, Many major dance companies are asking themselves whether or not to produce their annual cash cow holiday production of “The...
“…What’s Next for the Arts”
Austin Chronicle/June 5, 2020 by Robert Faires “For 60 minutes, more than 40 Austinites representing 20 area arts organizations gave...
“Lloyd Webber Offers Palladium For Trial”
London Evening Standard/June 4, 2020 by Jonathan Prynn “Theatre bosses are drawing up a radical blueprint of measures to allow shows to...
“How ‘Phantom’ Survived the Pandemic”
New York Times/June 2, 2020 by Jennifer Schuessler and Su-Hyun Lee “The Phantom of the Opera” has garnered plenty of superlatives over...
“...Welcome to the Post-Lockdown Opera”
The Wall Street Journal/ May 19, 2020 By Ruth Bender WIESBADEN, Germany—When this town’s main theater stages Richard Wagner’s “Tristan...
"Live Performance Producers Giving Up on 2020"
The New York Times/May 25, 2020 by Michael Paulson, Joshua Barone, Ben Sisario and Zachary Woolfe “In the world of performing arts, the...
“Only 19% of U.K. Audiences Would Return”
Variety/May 22, 2020 By Manori Ravindran “A nationwide survey of audience members of U.K. arts venues and theaters has found that just...
“What The Mass. 4-Phase Reopening Plan Looks Like”
WBUR/May 19, 2020 by The ARTery Team Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker announced a four-phase plan for reopening, with a number of...
“When Will We Want To Be in a Room Full of Strangers Again?”
The Atlantic/May 12, 2020 by Helen Shaw “Walking into the kiln theatre in North London is like uncovering a time capsule—from before...
“Berlin study issues recommendations for orchestral distancing”
thestrad.com/May 8, 2020 Scientists at the Charité in Berlin have issued a 13-page paper, at the request of seven Berlin orchestras,...
“Shanghai Disneyland Reopens at Under 30 Percent Capacity”
The Hollywood Reporter/May 11, 2020 by Patrick Brzeski Tickets for Monday's reopening went on sale last Friday and sold out within...
“Connecticut summer theater festivals reinvent themselves for social distancing”
The Hartford Courant/May 10, 2020 by Christopher Arnot In an arts season marked by cancellations, postponements and uncertainty, three...
“The Digital Dance”
The Los Angeles Times/May 11, 2020 by Makeda Easter For 35 years, choreographer Heidi Duckler has navigated the unique challenges of...
“How Do We Move Towards Recovery In The Arts: Cultural Leaders Weigh In”
WNET/AllArts/May 11, 2020 by Britt Stigler As the arts and culture world begins to crack open its doors, what lies on the other side...
“As Some Spaces Reopen, Consumers’ Uncertainty of Doing Some Activities Is Shrinking”
Morning Consult/May 11, 2020 by Alyssa Meyers Since early April, Morning Consult has asked consumers when they anticipate feeling secure...
Theater Producers “Completely Aligned” With New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Re-Opening Process And Plan
DEADLINE May 1, 2020, by Greg Evans Despite recent, scattered press reports suggesting New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was snubbing Broadway...
“The Post-Covid Concert Hall Catastrophe: Why Audience Attendance is the Least of Our Problems”
Author: Zach Finkelstein | Source: The Middleclass Artist, April 29, 2020. Will Audiences Come Back to the Concert Hall? When we return...
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