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  • Collection: Theatre in the Time of a Pandemic

A fiction audio drama about an old watering hole is the unsettling setting for a grisly tale of two pandemics. The first in the series 1918/2020.

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced theatre companies to adjust their contingency plans by substituting productions for ones with smaller casts that a can be recorded or performed on Zoom.

A look at how previous pandemics and plagues affected theatre at the time.

PBS NewsHour article on how live theater in Miami, FL has adjusted to performing during the COVID-19 pandemic.

From YouTube: What started out as a fun project during the 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic quarantine on our private Facebook group evolved into something emotional, nostalgic, and uniquely unifying amidst a very dark and isolated period in humanity. Now,…

A look at some of the pieces of theater, improvisation, and radio drama being created in a world under quarantine.

Seize the Show is the creation of producer David Carpenter. Reminiscent of each Jackbox Party Pack, video games, and Choose-Your-Own-Adventure, the game show is an interactive experience where each audience member is assigned a role, and together…

Despite the influenza pandemic shutting down entertainment across the United States, New York playhouses and movie theatres remained open at the request of the NYC health commissioner to prevent panic.

The Lyric Opera of Chicago describes their immersive drive-thru production performed in a parking garage.

A look at five ways the pandemic will transform the live theater industry.
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