Tag: 12.30.20
He’s The King, The Grandfather And The Godfather Of Roller Disco
At the height of the disco craze in the late 1970s, Empire Rollerdrome, a rink in Brooklyn across the street from where the Brooklyn...
The Return Of The (High School) Radio Play
The teen actors couldn't perform outside because it was too cold, and they couldn't film because their school went virtual partway through the term....
Painting In Apocalyptic Times
The Canadian artist painting 2020 for a spot across from Salvador DalÃ's Santiago El Grande, which includes a nuclear bomb going off: "I wanted...
Theatremakers Want – And Need – A New New Deal
Hurray for the Save Our Stages money, but theatres need a lot more: "a new Federal Theatre Project (FTP), like the Depression-era government agency...
Dancers Have To Learn New Tricks And Stretch New ‘Muscles’ During The Pandemic
That is, their business muscles. They became bakers, started resource centers, trained non-dancers, and gotten into fashion - among many, many other second, third,...
US Arts Venues Are Finally Getting Some Relief
Is it too little, too late? "Unlike other business sectors that have been hit hard by the coronavirus, performance centres are in a uniquely...
How Jewish Theatre Scrambled And Remade Itself For The Digital Year
As with every other kind of theatre, Jewish theaters and playwrights, actors and tech people, had a lot to figure out. The Jewish Playwriting...