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You’re New Here, Aren’t You? Digital Theater’s Unexpected Upside
The ability to utilize online and digital performances during the pandemic has allowed theatre companies from across the country and abroad to remain engaged with and grow their audience. This silver-lining to an unfortunate situation has increased…
You Can't Stop the Beat - Hairspray Finale Spectacular
HAIRSPRAY alumni from numerous productions, along with other professional theater, film and television performers came together to perform You Can’t Stop The Beat! to benefit The Actors Fund COVID-19 Emergency Financial Assistance program.
With playhouses dark, interactive theater online is lighting things up: Step right up to your laptop, and let theater entertain you with magic and mind reading.
With playhouses closed, smaller theatre companies pivoting to include their live audiences into the streaming performance by using Zoom voting, live messaging, or sending a "mystery box" to household ticket holders ahead of scheduled online shows.
Why Making Digital Theater is Like Shooting 'Star Wars'
An interview with Director Lileana Blain-Cruz and producer Jim Glaub on “The Baltimore Waltz” and why virtual theater is a lot more complicated than it looks.
When Will We Want to Be in a Room Full of Strangers Again?
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.
When Broadway comes back: 5 ways the pandemic will transform the live theater industry
A look at five ways the pandemic will transform the live theater industry.
What Pandemic Theater Can Sound Like
Audible's Kate Navin on the Williamstown Theater Festival and how they recorded summer season as audio dramas.
Wait…this opera’s in a parking garage?
The Lyric Opera of Chicago describes their immersive drive-thru production performed in a parking garage.
Theatre and the Last Pandemic
Throughout history, from Shakespeare to the Marx Brothers, pandemics have interrupted entertainment. While performers and venues had to deal with the economical outcome, traditionally works that were born from the tragedy seldom used the event as…
Theaters may be dark, but theater-makers are still finding ways to dazzle you
The COVID-19 pandemic has focused smaller theatre companies to rethink their productions and technical requirements. Performing live online with interactive features has opened opportunities to invite a national audience since the Web doesn't…