LEBANON A group of artists, educators and parents is proposing a new private high school, the New England School of the Arts, for a location on the downtown pedestrian mall.The Lebanon Planning Board is slated to hear an application from the group.
The reason it’s called community theaterIf there has ever been a year to learn the things we’ve taken for granted, 2020 was it. Everyone has lost something during this pandemic. It might have been a vacation, a wedding, a career high. It might have.
Covid, the Musical? Jodi Picoult Is Giving It a Try.
Working with a playwright, the best-selling author has turned the symptoms of illness into songwriting prompts for a new musical called “Breathe.”
Jodi Picoult and Timothy Allen McDonald were inspired by Jonathan Larson’s “Rent” in trying to capture the impact of another virus on the stage.Credit.From left: Kieran Kesner for The New York Times; Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
By Elisabeth Egan
May 10, 2021
About halfway through “Breathe,” a new musical created by the best-selling novelist Jodi Picoult and the veteran playwright Timothy Allen McDonald, a fed-up, locked-down father of three sums up the challenges of the pandemic in a two-word refrain: “It’s brutal!”