...Tom Sellar Jatka78, Festival of Nothing, Prague, Czechia, 2020. Photo: Jakub Jelen. Courtesy of Jatka78 1Up Front COVID- 19: A Note Tom Sellar The American theater as we knew it unraveled in the span of just a few days in March 2020. As the United States shut down large- capacity public spaces...

..., they consider what the company—and theater in general—has learned from the COVID-19 pandemic: namely, the challenges and possibilities of producing work online and that addressing accessibility presents rich opportunities for artistic discovery. [email protected] [email protected] © 2022...

... Postcards from my Balcony, begun in March 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic arrived in Toronto. As emanations of a care-based writing practice, these entirely textual “postcards” include image descriptions, written messages, and voice memos. [email protected] © 2022 by David Geffen School...

...Nicholas Orvis © 2021 by David Geffen School of Drama at Yale/Yale Repertory Theatre 2021 orvis Eugenio Ampudia s Concert for the Biocene, 2020. Courtesy of the artist A Fallow Year Nicholas Orvis Since May 2020, a few weeks into the worldwide shutdown for covid-­19, I ve found myself unable...

... anniversary of the ada, covid-­19 made one fact all too visible: the pervasive ableism of society means that the scaffolding offered by the ada is insufficient for too many people. Ours was a revelation of both what imperiled the support needed by so many and the structures put into place by crip communities...

..., just before the covid-­19 pandemic, we received a $50,000 nyc Mayor s Grant for Social Impact. This allowed us to partner with Dixon Place for a coproduction featuring plays from Syria, Lebanon, India, and Venezuela. Because of the pandemic, we moved the festival to Zoom, maintaining our commitment...

... capital. He gawks at the fabrication of a narrative apocalypse when, in reality, endings and beginnings are intertwined. And then, when no one s looking, Hector shows his heart. This play was written before the covid-­19 pandemic, when masks, gloves, and other forms of personal protective equipment were...

... in preparation for the play s world premiere in nyc with New Light Theatre Project (postponed due to covid-­19). This version is a bit more contained than the audio version. But it s still what it s always been since that one-­act in 2015. It s a play about love. All the flavors of it. And the way it lingers...

... it on rooftops or parking lots of big regional theaters across the country as an act of 58 on unmaking theater in theatre: a love story protest against the abuses and misuses of capital at many building-b­ ased institutions. Although we tabled that idea, especially as covid-­19 became a reality, the spirit...

... stories about your failures in life. It s important to note that, collectively, we were experiencing one of our biggest failures as a nation: we had just elected Donald Trump, a white supremacist megalomaniac celebrity, to the presidency. And to be clear, this was three years before covid-­19 had hit...

..., from the manifesto s intentions right up to the recent projects in times of the (at the time of writing) ongoing pandemic, which advocate a new local practice, where the city and citizens of Ghent play the main role on and off the stage of the city theater.13 After the first covid-­19 hiatus, ntgent...

.../Yale Repertory Theatre Call and (Lack of ) Response Ashley M. Thomas There are two pandemics in our country right now: covid- 19 and racism. Both are claiming the lives of innocent people. The entire nation remains in an inchoate phase of recovery, but the onus for American theaters to address one...

... are forced to have to figure out how to move forward together. The necessity of establishing what you need to feel safe and what you need in order to keep doing the work you do. It might start with covid-­19 precautions and testing regimes, or how to move a live performing arts tradition into online...

... variables like those of today s living among covid-19 remained elusive and blurry, a bit in the distance, slightly out of range. The three texts at the core of the talking|dance series have been published by Theater, granting their ideas a coherent, shared living beyond the space and time of their original...

... of expansion. I bring my material to the group that has assembled that evening at Lincoln Center. covid-­19 continues its grip on us all, and the nypl is not yet supporting in-p­ erson events, so all my dance fellowship Crip/Mad Archive Dances in 2021 are invitational rather than fully public. Here is the note...

... on for security. covid-­19 has drastically impacted the theater industry as a whole, and smaller theaters, like so many Black theater companies, have been the most vulnerable. In the wake of ongoing police brutal- Theater 51:3 doi 10.1215/01610775-9402439 © 2021 by David Geffen School of Drama at Yale/Yale...

.... It is a theater piece that burns and hurts but, at the same time, thrives and moves forward. Humor confronts horror and becomes resistance. I first read this play in my home country of Peru, in a low moment in the covid-­19 pandemic, when grief and loss were everywhere. Reading it, then working...

..., and future combine with no clear beginning or end. Furthermore, due to the covid-­19 pandemic, it became possible for us to create a digital show that would have not been possible prepandemic as our funding is for live performances. Creating a hybrid form meant breaking the construct of a physical...

... Riot member Wendy Moira through balaclavas, urges ongoing resistance and mutual aid in order to survive covid and state oppression alike. Vocal public support for Las Tesis has been heartening, but Chilean artists and arts institutions are still suffering. As of this writing, curfews have frozen...

... be further developed but probably not by Tricklock, which was forced to close its doors as a result of the covid-19 pandemic. Clearly the Polish government s motivation for funding the whole Niepodleg a Program, including the Paderewski Musical Project, is nationalistic. And the current government, headed...