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Theaters hit the one-year anniversary of shutdown. How are artists keeping afloat?
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How are artists keeping afloat? Clockwise from top left: Lars Jan, Richard Maxwell, Culture Clash, Daniel Fish, Annie Dorsen and Dael Orlandersmith. (Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times; Mike Nagle / For The Times; Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times; Tei Blow; Nagle; Gary Coronado / Los Angeles Times)
No sector of the performing arts has been unscathed by the COVID-19 pandemic. But I ve been especially concerned about the plight of theater stalwarts, those pioneers and purists who haven t been biding their time in rehearsal rooms, waiting for their Netflix closeups. For directors, playwrights and performance artists whose canvas is the three-dimensional stage, the situation has been unimaginably dire.
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No sector of the performing arts has been unscathed by the COVID-19 pandemic. But I’ve been especially concerned about the plight of theater stalwarts, those pioneers and purists who haven’t been biding their time in rehearsal rooms, waiting for their Netflix closeups. For directors, playwrights and performance artists whose canvas is the three-dimensional stage, the situation has been unimaginably dire.
How have they been getting by, creatively and financially? I feared tales of Dickensian hardship, but I came away from my conversations with director Daniel Fish, the performance troupe Culture Clash, playwright and performer Dael Orlandersmith, director and visual artist Lars Jan, director Annie Dorsen and playwright and director Richard Maxwell heartened by their tenacity and resilience.