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

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…

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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…