Broadway Is Reopening. But Not Until September.
Even as New York City begins to reopen this summer, Broadway will not resume performances until Sept. 14. Here’s why.
Broadway, a powerful economic driver of New York City, will begin to reopen Sept. 14 with full-capacity shows. Credit.Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
May 5, 2021
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo says that most pandemic capacity restrictions will ease in two weeks. Mayor Bill de Blasio says he wants the city to fully reopen on July 1. But Broadway, a beacon for tourists and an engine for the economy, is not quite ready to turn on the stage lights.
After having closed its doors to the public in March 2020 due to COVID-19, the Alley Theatre has announced its plans to reopen the theatre in Fall 2021. Reopening the Alley Theatre coincides with its 75th Anniversary Season with performances beginning on October 1, 2021. The 75th Anniversary Season and the Alley s celebratory return to live performances includes three world premiere plays and one world premiere musical. I couldn t be more excited to get back into the Theatre with this fabulous line-up including a Pulitzer Prize-winning play, a world-premiere musical, and three world premiere plays, said Artistic Director Rob Melrose. Our 75th Season boasts the most world premieres of any of our 74 previous seasons! When founder Nina Vance started this Theatre in 1947, she sent out 214 penny postcards and stated It s beginning! Houston, this is your Theatre. For the 75 Anniversary and beyond, we are committed to being a Theatre for all Houstonians. I m thrilled to usher in the 7
After premiering at Chicagoâs Steppenwolf Theatre Company,
Pass Over opened Off-Broadway in 2018 as part of Lincoln Center Theater s LCT3 programming. A few months prior, a film version of the Chicago staging, directed by Spike Lee, debuted at Sundance Film Festival. It is now available to stream as an Amazon Prime original.
Nwandu has previously modified the play between its iterations, a move she says was born out of wanting to prick the conscience of liberal Americans who remain tentative in their condemnation of violence against Black people. This new production, which will arrive on Broadway following a hiatus marked by a global pandemic, demands for racial justice, and a reckoning against abuse of power, will follow suit.
The Things You Must Do In Dallas This May
Theater, concerts, gallery openings, and more. The city is coming alive.
Born from the mind of The Wild Detectives co-owner Javier Garcia del Moral, the Six Foot Love Series transforms the North Oak Cliff bookstore into a concert venue, with a limited capacity of 42 people. (The name, as you might have guessed, comes from the amount of space between tables and benches.) The performances include music from local artists; for May, Skinny Corks and Telephone House are the featured acts.
Cluley Projects
For this seven-piece exhibition, Dallas-based artist Xxavier Edward Carter transforms magazines, newspapers, and financial and legal documents into thought-provoking collages that reflect on concepts of ownership and wealth. Carter removes the physical markers of the documents and reassembles them into blank shapes, allowing him the space to provide commentary on American ideals of materialism, capitalist waste, and indulgent desire. His s
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Fourteen months into the pandemic, countless aspects of what was once everyday life have grown foreign. Near the top of the list is live theater. Sitting in a dark room with hundreds or thousands of strangers, watching dozens more strangers on stage, a story unfolding in the collective space all feels hard to remember.
That’s not good for theaters, many of which will not survive the pandemic. To some, this is a sad but negligible loss. Performing arts are often dismissed as a luxury, and even in better times arts funding or arts education in schools is regularly threatened.