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The performing arts are coming back and arts organizations around the country are having to think about how to reengage with live audiences, in a safe way. After being dark since March of 2020, New York's Lincoln Center welcomed audiences back Monday — to its radically transformed physical space, one that is also more inviting and inclusive. "One of my favorite times at Lincoln Center, actually, is just before curtain comes up and just after it comes down on campus," says Henry Timms, Lincoln Center's president. "And you just have this moment where the campus is completely full of people. A...

Lincoln Center announced a new initiative to create an outdoor performance arts center all in the hope of kickstarting the revival of the performing arts in New York City. Lincoln center announced “Restart Stages” the initiative that will create 10 outdoor performance and rehearsal spaces as well as other outdoor civic venues. “Restart Stages” will launch on World Health Day,… NYFF Aug 14, 2020 The major fall film festivals, which often jockey for the chance to premiere the season’s top films, this year worked in concert to salvage what they can from a more limite...

Lien says changing the normally cold and hard paving stones to grass-like material makes the space more inviting and anyone can sit anywhere. The Broadway community raised a curtain of sorts in the middle of Times Square one year after theaters went dark. NBC New York's Pat Battle reports. "I wanted to make a place where you could lie on a grassy slope and read a book all afternoon. Get a coffee and sit in the sun. Bring your babies and frolic in the grass. Have a picnic lunch with co-workers," the designer said in a news release. In addition to live performances around the area, the...

31 PHOTOS "At our very first design meeting for Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812, Dave Malloy described an experience he had one night in Moscow during a research trip to Russia. That night, he stepped into a space that engulfed him in warmth, conviviality with strangers (drinking and eating together), music coming from everywhere around the room, and a general feeling of headiness, perhaps a result of the alcohol, or perhaps merely from the decadent atmosphere..." Groundplan sketch for Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 Mimi Li...

Weather: The temperature will soar to around 70 today under mostly sunny skies before falling to the low 50s tonight. Expect some showers tonight, too. Alternate-side parking: In effect until April 29 (Holy Thursday, Orthodox). Image Credit...Bryan Anselm for The New York Times Though the vaccination effort is well underway in New York City, new coronavirus cases remain stubbornly high. The likely culprit: variants. More contagious variants of the virus account for more than 75 percent of new cases, according to a recent analysis. Newly available ZIP code-level data provides some answers o...