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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 found its voice. It was St. Patrick’s Day, after all — not an occasion to go unacknowledge...

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 announce his presidential candidacy on a stage below, he set the United States on a trajectory that muc...

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, featuring special guests Lou Bellamy, Oskar Eustis, David Henry Hwang, Tony Kushner, Phylicia Rasha...

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 emerging in the city of Wuhan. The field of public health had long been haunted by the prospect of a...

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 are a part of the Aspen Institute has continued—and it is work that shouldn’t be overlooked.