WASHINGTON The arts in Austin, from the performing arts and live music clubs to at least one museum, are poised to get relief from the pandemic that has left the cultural world without audiences or much income.
A new $16 billion federal grant program swung into gear last week, nearly a month after an initial start was derailed when the system crashed on the day it opened.
“Things are in a very good place now,” Elisbeth Challener, managing director of Zach Theatre, said of the restart. “Fingers and toes crossed.” The Zach is applying for $2.6 million in funding after having had to lay off or furlough more than 80% of its staff and seeing a 60% decline in revenue in 2020, compared with 2019.
Amas Musical Theatre today announced the recipients of the third Eric H. Weinberger Award for Emerging Librettists, a juried cash and production grant given annually to support the early work and career of a deserving musical theatre librettist, commemorating the life and work of playwright/librettist Eric H. Weinberger (1950-2017), who was a Drama Desk Award nominee for Best Book of a Musical (Wanda s World), and the playwright/librettist of Class Mothers 68, which earned Pricilla Lopez a Drama Desk Award nomination.
Gabe Caruso and Sangwoo Simon Lee, 2020 graduates of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program, were selected from over 48 blind submissions for their full-length musical SETTLE DOWN: A New Hip Hop Musical. In addition to a check for $2,000 to help pay cost-of-living expenses, Mr. Caruso and Mr. Lee receive development assistance from the New Works Development Program of Amas Musical Theatre, culminating in the work being rehearsed
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More musical healing is in order.
You will not find a more intense hour of invigorating and soothing curative than Gospel Down by the Riverside, delivered by four top-shelf singers as part of Zach Theatre s Songs Under the Stars series through April 11.
In October, Zach introduced the salutary outdoor series staged at its People s Plaza with a socially distanced concert of Broadway show tunes sung by local stars Matthew Reden and Jill Blackwood. Then as now, as much careful planning went into audience placement and movement as into the concerts perched on the steps of the Topfer Theatre. Rock, pop and Motown themes enlivened the weeks that followed.
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