NEW BEDFORD The SouthCoast is known for its variety of theatrical options on almost any given weekend. However, COVID-19 has deemed live performances unsafe and has forced all theatre companies to shut down.
On March 12, 2020, New York City officially shut down Broadway to accommodate safety concerns with the spread of COVID-19. It’s now been officially one year since in-person performances have been a thing especially within the walls of a theatre.
And Broadway is still closed.
Little Theatre of Fall River was in its fifth of nine performances for the musical Blood Brothers when they chose to cancel the remaining shows amid safety concerns. The SouthCoast Children’s Theatre was rehearsing “Frozen Jr.,” with a cast of 80 kids, when they were forced to switch over to Zoom.
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moving truck crashed into him, causing him to spin out and hit a guard rail. Nagayoshi said the truck driver s water bottle had fallen under the brake pedal, and was unable to stop and collided with the car. The truck driver was OK and relieved to know Nagayoshi wasn t dead. After evaluation, he was discharged from Rhode Island Hospital the following day and returned to work on Monday. I m emotionally rattled, he said. It s frightening to think I would die.
Besides the ambulance, medical and towing expenses, Nagayoshi is more focused on what this taught him. A hard worker, he has many irons in the fire and is preoccupied at every minute of every day. He thought it was ironic that this accident occurred when he was driving back from work late at night, and it almost killed him.
Starting March 11, kindergarten through grade 12 educators, child care workers and school staff will be eligible to schedule COVID-19 vaccine appointments, according to a press release from the Baker-Polito administration. Originally planned for April, the state is pushing educators and staff to the front of the line for vaccines in an effort to safely return all elementary students back to in-person learning in the coming weeks.
Local response has been generally positive from educators across the SouthCoast. With districts beginning to send elementary students back to a full in-person learning model, teachers and administration have been concerned about teachers not yet eligible for the vaccine.
As the state pushes schools to return students to an in-person learning model, Gov. Charlie Baker has announced that teachers will be able to make COVID vaccine appointments as of Thursday, March 11th.
We get the latest from WBUR s Carrie Jung, take listener calls, and hear reactions from Almi Abeyta, Superintendent of Chelsea Public Schools, and Takeru Nagayoshi, English and research teacher at New Bedford High School, and 2020 Massachusetts Teacher of the Year.
This segment aired on March 3, 2021.
Radio Boston rundown for March 3. Tiziana Dearing is our host.
As the state pushes schools to return students to an in-person learning model, Governor Charlie Baker has announced that teachers will be able to make COVID vaccine appointments as of Thursday, March 11th. We get the latest from WBUR s Carrie Jung, take listener calls, and hear reactions from Almi Abeyta, Superintendent of Chelsea Public Schools, and Takeru Nagayoshi, English and research teacher at New Bedford High School, 2020 Massachusetts Teacher of the Year.
Susan Cattaneo, along with her band mate Renee Dupuis, joined us in our studio at the end of 2019 to play some music. We re revisiting the conversation we had with Cattaneo that day as part of our coverage for Women s History Month. Cattaneo believes in making space for women musicians, and back then, she was part of a female-fronted residency at Union Tavern in Somerville. When she came to WBUR, Cattaneo told us why she thought more space for female musician