In the last 10 months, New England’s rich arts scene has been hit hard.
Those who depend on live audiences to make a living have lost wages and many lost their jobs. President Joe Biden’s proposed extension of unemployment benefits could help.
Still, music clubs and theaters have been forced to hibernate and some places have permanently closed.
Online fundraisers have become revenue streams for some venues. The Shea Theater in Turners Falls, Massachusetts, just held a two-day event featuring musicians performing from home studios.
Luthier s Co-Op in Easthampton started a GoFundMe page. So did Gateway City Arts in Holyoke, raising almost $40,000. But it wasn’t nearly enough.
Credit Williamstown Theatre Festival
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. – It must be some sort of reviewer’s jinx that the play in a season you are most looking forward to experiencing is often the most disappointing.
Well, it struck again.
“Chonburi International Hotel & Butterfly Club,” the fourth play on the Williamstown Theatre Festival Audio season appeared to be a type of play that could inform, enlighten and entertain. In other words, it looked like the entire package.
Instead, it’s an uninterrupted hour and forty-four minutes of bits and pieces. It includes some very thoughtful and caring moments, but by including many wider-ranging political ideas it dilutes the emotional power of the piece.
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Well, it struck again.
âChonburi International Hotel & Butterfly Club,â the fourth play on the Williamstown Theatre Festival Audio season appeared to be a type of play that could inform, enlighten and entertain. In other words, it looked like the entire package.
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Instead, itâs an uninterrupted hour and forty-four minutes of bits and pieces. It includes some very thoughtful and caring moments, but by including many wider-ranging political ideas it dilutes the emotional power of the piece.
â⦠Butterfly Clubâ is about seven transgender women who stay at the Chonburi Hotel in Thailand while undergoing gender confirmation surgery. The women are from all points of the globe and in various stages of their surgeries.
Bash Doran, Larissa FastHorse, Robert O Hara, and Alan Poul Join Playwrights Horizons Board
They come to their new roles as the institution begins its 50th anniversary year (2020-21).by BWW News Desk
Playwrights Horizons today announced that four wide-ranging and award-winning artists have joined its Board of Directors: Helen Merrill Playwriting Award-winning playwright, TV scriptwriter, and producer Bash Doran (Kin at Playwrights Horizons, The Mystery of Love & Sex); 2020 MacArthur Fellowship-winning playwright Larissa Fasthorse (The Thanksgiving Play at Playwrights Horizons); writer-director Robert O Hara (Bootycandy, Mankind, Bella: An American Tall Tale and Gather at Playwrights Horizons, Slave Play); and Emmy-winning American television and film producer and director Alan Poul ( Six Feet Under, The Newsroom ). This cohort is the first artistic representation on the company s Board. They come to their new roles as the institution begins its 50th anniversary year (2020-21) an