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…
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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…
Vulture: How One Theater Company Is Facing a Dark Spring
March 19, 2020 | By Helen Shaw
If you time the Theater Shutdown from Thursday, March 12, then we’re through day seven. Seven days of turning into the City that Never Gathers. Seven days! Time enough for God to make a world. But as we move further into the crisis, it also seems to have been enough time to rock ours to its foundations. New York culture exists right at the survivalist brink at the best of times, and with the violence of its forced closure starting to reverberate through a hand-to-mouth sub-economy, doubts have started to grow. How exactly are we going to reboot all of live performance? How far do these repercussions go? More…
COVID-19 Art Stories
When the first countries began to lock down in response to COVID-19, I was in the midst of researching the aftermath of the Black Death in York in the fourteenth century, and the rise of the documented practice of arts management. The urgency of what was happening in the world almost seven centuries after those events led me to want to capture and amplify the stories of those in the front lines of arts and culture. These are their words, unedited. More…
NAPAMA: COVID-19
NAPAMA is working on targeted resources for agents, managers, and self-represented artists. This information will be updated as more links and information are shared and become available.
A task force created by NAPAMA has developed a list of frequently asked questions and responses regarding the coronavirus/COVID-19 epidemic. The FAQs will be helpful for the entire field with special focus on issues facing agents, managers, and self-represented artists.
BRIC: Resources for Artists During a Public Health Crisis
As we take heightened precautions to support public health initiatives, including temporarily closing our doors, we want to maintain our unwavering support of the artistic and creative community and ensure that you continue to thrive. To that end, we have compiled a list of shared resources from local and national arts and culture organizations.
These resources offer assistance, such as financial support and opportunities for artists to continue to express their creative potential during these difficult times. More…
Americans for the Arts and the Arts Action Fund are standing up for the arts in America during COVID-19!
Request your members of Congress ensure Congress will include $4 billion—to be distributed though the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)—to help offset the losses of the nonprofit arts industry, and expand eligibility through additional federal programs to ensure artists, entrepreneurs, and small businesses in the creative economy can utilize business interruption relief. More…