Shakespeare Dallas expands digital offerings with new monthly podcast
Shakespeare Dallas expands digital offerings with new monthly podcast
Photo by Karen Almond
Graphic courtesy of Shakespeare Dallas Since the pandemic began, theater companies in Dallas-Fort Worth and beyond have been exploring new ways to create art and engage with their audiences. We ve seen streamed performances, drive-in productions, experimental Zoom scripts, and now a podcast. Shakespeare Dallas has launched a monthly audio series called
Shakespeare Decoded, of which the first two episodes are available now. The podcast explores the social issues of William Shakespeare s day that remain burning issues in today s global society.
Updated on December 22, 2020 at 2:17 pm
Kitchen Dog Theater
When Terry Loftis looks back at the arts community in 2020, three words come to mind: inspiring, endurance and optimism. Loftis, the President and Executive Director of The Arts Community Alliance (TACA), announced $200,500 in grants to 30 Dallas arts organizations persevering through the coronavirus pandemic.
2020 is Loftis’ first calendar year to serve as TACA’s president and executive director. When he officially took over the job in late 2019, his goals included making TACA relevant, putting the arts advocacy group in a position of leadership for the arts community and cultivating art.
The pandemic accelerated those goals. “COVID comes along and just says, ‘Everything that you have planned and everything you didn’t have planned is now in play. Ready, set, go!’” Loftis said. “We’ve been running a gauntlet, but the upside to that is a lot of the long-term objectives I had set for TACA, we’ve already