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CP Photo: Jared Wickerham City Theatre staff at Hazelwood Green, the location of this year’s Drive-in Arts Festival When the pandemic hit earlier this year, City Theatre had to cancel, postpone, or move performances completely online. The immediate future for local theater was unknown. City Theatre’s annual fundraiser, originally scheduled for September, was also sidelined. But the South Side theater company came up with an inventive live experience this fall that brought joy to a city full of people who were stuck at home for months. For two weeks, City Theatre presented the Drive-in Arts Festival at Hazelwood Green, bringing theater, comedy, music, magic, and dance to a giant stage in a parking lot, mimicking the experience of a drive-in movie theater. Audiences were able to enjoy a live in-person show in a pandemic-friendly fash
Dancing outside the black box.
December 17, 2020
PEARLANN PORTER STAGED HER THOUGHT POCKETS SIDEWALK SERIES IN AUGUST ON STRAWBERRY WAY, DOWNTOWN | PHOTO BY AARON JACKENDOFF
When the Benedum Center’s curtain lowered on “Beauty and the Beast’s” happy ending in February, who knew it wouldn’t rise on the dance world again this year? Although Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre’s production was the company’s last dance at that venue, the COVID-19 pandemic didn’t paralyze the season. It invigorated it.
As theaters closed, local artists virtually danced around, canceled, postponed and rescheduled gigs. Quarantine-inspired expressions of confinement, isolation and frustration proliferated on social media, prompting Attack Theatre’s “Cello Diary” and PBT’s “Dances From Home.”