Stanford Live presents a drama by Rhum and Clay Theatre Company, inspired by Orson Welles hair-raising radio broadcast about Martians invading, and the panic of listeners who thought it was real. Mars will attack Oct. 28-29.
Stuck@Home virtual concert series performs live
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Aidin Vaziri and Lily Janiak April 1, 2021Updated: April 1, 2021, 6:02 pm
The state has released guidelines for how outdoor venues like the Frost Amphitheater in Stanford, shown in 2019, can reopen. Photo: Santiago Mejia, The Chronicle
California has finally released guidelines about how outdoor venues can reopen for live events, performances and concerts. But that does not mean Bay Area audiences will be able to return to shows right away.
It will take some time and planning for promoters and producers to figure out the new pandemic-era rules, which were released as an 18-page document on March 26. Outdoor venues must figure out how to reduce audience capacity according to the four tiers of the state’s color-coded reopening system from up to 100 people in the most restrictive purple tier to 67% capacity in the least restrictive yellow tier.
Lily Janiak April 1, 2021Updated: April 2, 2021, 2:03 pm
Stanford Live plans to present “Stanford Under the Stars: Movie Nights at Frost,” an outdoor film series. Photo: Kimberly Pross, Stanford Live
Stanford Live plans to present “Stanford Under the Stars: Movie Nights at Frost,” a seven-week outdoor movie series at its Frost Amphitheater, the presenter announced Thursday, April 1.
Beginning April 29, the weekly series will screen three films, each centered on a notable Stanford alumnus.
“Luckily, we have folks like Reese Witherspoon and Sigourney Weaver and Jennifer Connelly and Sterling K. Brown and Issa Rae,” said Chris Lorway, executive director of Stanford Live and Bing Concert Hall.
Revisiting Bay Area theater’s first pandemic interviews one year later
Early pandemic interviewing felt like asking someone to peer off a cliff into an abyss and tell me what they saw.
Lily Janiak March 16, 2021Updated: March 16, 2021, 8:11 pm
The Frost Amphitheater begins to fill up for a Kali Uchis and Jorja Smith concert at Stanford. Photo: Santiago Mejia, The Chronicle 2019
When I interviewed theater artists and producers in late February and early March of last year, I often felt as if I was asking someone to peer off a cliff into an abyss and tell me what they saw.
A year later, I wondered if the scene still looked like an abyss, so I asked five of my early pandemic interviewees to revisit those conversations with me, that we might measure the distance between then, now and what’s to come.
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