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You’re New Here, Aren’t You? Digital Theater’s Unexpected Upside Companies and venues that put work online are finding big, new and younger audiences — but little revenue. Pittsburgh Public Theater has found an audience for streamed shows like “The Gift of the Mad Guys,” an adaptation of O. Henry’s “The Gift of the Magi.”Credit...via Pittsburgh Public Theater Five days after the coronavirus quieted performing arts venues, the Irish Repertory Theater ...

How Theater Stepped Up to Meet the Trump Era As artists saw liberties threatened and inequities exacerbated, the stage became more thrillingly urgent than it had been in decades. Gregg Henry as the Trump-styled title character in the Public Theater’s 2017 “Julius Caesar.”Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times Published Jan. 18, 2021Updated Jan. 20, 2021 On the Tuesday morning in June 2015 when Donald J. Trump waved his way down, down, down a golden-edged escalator in Trump Tower to ann...

Philip Gotanda Among Legacy Playwrights Initiative’s Inaugural Winners Posted On NEW YORK — The Legacy Playwrights Initiative has announced the recipients of the inaugural Legacy Playwrights Initiative Awards, which aims to honor and advocate for elder playwrights who have fallen out of the public eye. The winners are Ed Bullins, Constance Congdon, and Philip Kan Gotanda. The playwrights were recognized at the Dramatists Guild Foundation “Write in the Dark” virtual benefit on Dec. 21,...

1. “An Evolving Situation” There are three moments in the yearlong catastrophe of the COVID-19 pandemic when events might have turned out differently. The first occurred on January 3, 2020, when Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, spoke with George Fu Gao, the head of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, which was modelled on the American institution. Redfield had just received a report about an unexplained respiratory virus ...

20 Issues and Ideas That Deserved More Attention in 2020 December 22, 2020  • David K. Gibson It is normal, at the end of the year, for organizations such as ours to assemble a “best of” list of stories. It’s a recognition of great work and a small thank you gift to those who have supported us. We don’t have to tell you that 2020 was not a normal year. But even in the maelstrom of a pandemic, social unrest, and political division, the important work of individuals and programs that ...

View all 20 New Yorkers were devastated last spring when it was announced that this years free Shakespeare In the Park festival would have to be canceled because of the pandemic. "It’s just clear to us at this point that there’s no way we can responsibly prepare, build and rehearse to get shows open in a timing that might match the quarantine’s timing," Oskar Eustis, the artistic director of the Public Theater, which founded and runs the festival, said at the time. Were hopeful th...

Statue of Shakespeare, Central Park, New York City. (Courtesy of Getty Images) Before Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton asserted that slavery had been a “necessary evil” and urged that the US military be deployed in American cities “in an overwhelming show of force,” he made a quieter but equally extreme proposal during an appearance on the Fox News show Sunday Morning Futures. While railing against allowing STEM students from China to study at US universities, he staked a claim for what cou...

captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. britain is celebrating the diamond jubilee of queen elizabeth ii. it marks her 60th year on the throne. whatever you may think of the institution of monarchy, the queen has led an extraordinary life. she came to power in 1952 before the current prime minister david cameron was even born. she meets with him regularly as she has done with every prime minister back to winston churchill. th...

captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. britain is celebrating the diamond jubilee of queen elizabeth ii. it marks her 60th year on the throne. whatever you may think of the institution of monarchy, the queen has led an extraordinary life. she came to power in 1952 before the current prime minister david cameron was even born. she meets with him regularly as she has done with every prime minister back to winston churchill. th...

captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. britain is celebrating the diamond jubilee of queen elizabeth ii. it marks her 60th year on the throne. whatever you may think of the institution of monarchy, the queen has led an extraordinary life. she came to power in 1952 before the current prime minister david cameron was even born. she meets with him regularly as she has done with every prime minister back to winston churchill. th...