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  • Collection: Theatre in the Time of a Pandemic

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

CBS Sunday Morning video article about the changes that regional theatres and artists made during the COVID-19 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…

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.

Similar to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, the 1918 influenza pandemic shut down all entertainment across the U.S., from movie theaters to vaudeville houses.

Audible's Kate Navin on the Williamstown Theater Festival and how they recorded summer season as audio dramas.

An interview with the co-founders of BroadwayHD, a subscription service that brings theatre to fans. They talk about the binge-watching habits of recorded Broadway shows during the time of social distancing.

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.

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.

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.
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