Live Performing Arts Are Returning to N.Y.C., but Not All at Once
Starting on Friday, theaters, comedy clubs and other arts venues can open at 33-percent capacity. The formula doesn’t work for everyone.
Conrad Tao performing Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” for a dance by Caleb Teicher as part of the Works and Process bubble performances on Tuesday at the Guggenheim Museum.Credit.Krista Schlueter for The New York Times
Published April 1, 2021Updated April 2, 2021
This is the weekend New York City’s theaters, music venues and comedy clubs have been waiting for. The chance to start holding performances again for a live, flesh-and-blood audience.
arrow Arriving at SNL, February 2020. Jen Carlson / Gothamist
There is a term in Portuguese, saudade, which my Portuguese-American sister-in-law tells me has no absolute English translation. But it is meant to describe a deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for an absent something or someone that one loves, according to Wikipedia, which also notes that, Moreover, it often carries a repressed knowledge that the object of longing might never be had again. It s safe to say the feelings of saudade are all over the place right now as we hit the one year mark of life in pandemic times. And those final days lived in ignorant bliss are both a salve and melancholic trigger.
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Las Vegas Magazine
By Alex Haase February 9, 2021
It’s been a tough year without Vegas shows. And as the pandemic rages on, it’s unclear when the city’s wonderful entertainers will make their long-awaited return. In the meantime, however, there’s an entire recorded history of Vegas entertainment, all of which can be accessed with a quick YouTube or Spotify search (and if you can find these performances on vinyl, bonus). Not only can you reminisce on concerts you may have seen in the past, such as Celine Dion or Diana Ross, but you can take a nostalgic trip back to the classic days of Vegas when the Rat Pack and the world’s most popular lounge singers reigned.