After last week’s successful launch of Joe’s Pub LIVE!, Joe’s Pub, a program of The Public Theater, will continue itsa??free series of live-streamed and archived performances from their iconic stage in New York City. This initiative serves to facilitate social connection during this time of physical distancing, so Joe’s Pub will share concerts with their audiences each Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 8PM Eastern. More…
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NY Times: No Theater? No Problem. Plays and Musicals Switch to Streaming
As bans on public gatherings have proliferated nationwide in response to coronavirus, shows and special programs are announcing streaming plans daily. More…
Opera of the Week
BMP is keeping the work of their artists out in the world as theaters are shuttered by offering an “Opera of the Week,” which will stream on their homepage. More…
The 24 Hour Plays to Launch Viral Monologues (Exclusive)
Rachel Dratch, Hugh Dancy, Patrick Wilson and Denis O’Hare are among 20 actors performing original pieces written overnight by David Lindsay-Abaire, Jesse Eisenberg and Stephen Adly Guirgis, among others. More…
National Theatre Will Stream NT Live Productions For Free on YouTube
The National Theatre has announced its new initiative, NATIONAL THEATRE AT HOME providing access to content online to serve audiences in their homes. Audiences around the world can stream NT Live productions for free via YouTube, and students and teachers have access to The National Theatre Collection at home, delivered in partnership with Bloomsbury Publishing.
From Thursday 2 April, a number of productions previously screened in cinemas globally as a part of National Theatre Live will be made available to watch via the National Theatre’s YouTube channel. More…
Free Off-Broadway Theater in Your Living Room
Theater Close-Up — a unique collaboration between THIRTEEN and New York City area non-profit Off-Broadway theaters — removes any obstacles to seeing fantastic theater productions. Theater Close-Up captures live performances expressly for THIRTEEN audiences; after the television broadcast, performances are available for online viewing, too. THIRTEEN is using its unrivaled expertise in producing national PBS arts programming to provide New Yorkers with unparalleled access to one of the city’s greatest underexposed cultural assets. More…
Playwrights Horizons: Resources for Artists
Job search websites for a full range of remote, freelance gigs; filing for unemployment; emergency and assistance grants; and organizations supporting artists that are accepting donations. More…
American Theatre: New York’s Downtown Theatre Stars Find a Way to Give Back
NEW YORK CITY: Broadway artists have had their living-room extravaganza to benefit the Actors’ Fund. But what about New York’s Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway, and downtown artists, especially those living paycheck to paycheck, and in all too many cases below the poverty line?
That’s where the Trickle Up comes in. This new “grass-roots subscription platform” will feature a curated group of established artists, who will share videos of solo performances, conversation, and other behind-the-scenes goodies, and donate the proceeds to other New York theatre and performance artists in need. More…
Theatre Without Theater
Theatre Without Theater is an Instagram account started by 3 theater artists to honor the productions that have been cancelled or postponed during this time, with the work shared every evening at “curtain time” of 7:30pm. The platform was created 5 days ago and the response has been beyond exciting – there are already over 4,000 followers and we were featured in the New York Times on March 17.
If you, like so many of us, have had work cancelled during time, and would be interested in sharing it on our platform, please reach out to us at [email protected]. We are committed to sharing work in a wide variety of forms – you can currently see on the account a mix of everything from a midwestern high school production of Jocelyn Bioh’s School Girls, to an actor from Broadway’s Harry Potter performing a scene, to a playwright reading a monologue from her cancelled workshop production, to a designer sharing their renderings. More…
Canada’s National Arts Centre and Facebook will pay musicians for livestreams
The National Arts Centre has teamed up with Facebook to offer artists a paid alternative to the livestreaming they’re already doing. The Facebook-National Arts Centre Fund for Performing Artists will provide $100,000 in artists fees to support online performances.
The first in the #CanadaPerforms series, which will run on NAC’s Facebook page, will take place Thursday, March 19 at 2 pm EST. Blue Rodeo frontman Jim Cuddy and his Jim Cuddy Band will be joined by Devin Cuddy, Sam Polley and Colin Cripps. The artists will perform in a studio and stand 1.5 metres apart from each other.
Other early performances include Serena Ryder, William Prince, Irish Mythen, Erin Costelo and Whitehorse. More…