Music and the Brain brings music literacy curriculum, teacher support and whole-class keyboard instruction to K-12 students as part of their school day. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic and remote learning needs of our partner schools, you can now access elements of Music and the Brain lessons online! More…
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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…
Marketable Skills from Professional Artists
Hello fellow artists! Due to the COVID-19 epidemic, we have widespread unemployment amongst people in the arts. Vallejo Gantner (the former Artistic Director of PS122 and now the Artistic and Executive Director of the Onassis Foundation) is independently creating a website so that artists can sell their skills to people who can and will pay for them. I know that there are a lot of side jobs that people have that they can no longer participate in and so we are attempting to make it simpler for you to make some money while you’re trapped in your home! 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…
Performing Arts Alliance: Overview of COVID Paid Leave and Employer Relief Provisions
We wanted to share this updated information with you from the federal agencies responsible for administering paid leave provisions of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, signed into law on March 18. Following is a top-line overview with direct links to information available from the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Both agencies are expected to release more details this week, which should provide answers about how the requirements and relief apply to staff, artists, and independent contractors who are not able to work due to program cancellations; inability to telework; and other impacts of the COVID-19 crisis. Performing Arts Alliance will keep you up to date as those details become available. More…