A full year after the pandemic started and performances stopped, the company’s 2021 mainstage season will begin in March with the world premiere of The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Joby Talbot and Gene Scheer, followed by Don Carlo, The Marriage of Figaro and Tosca. Scores will be abridged to 90 minutes and the stagings reworked to maintain distance between the singers. Live attendance will be limited to 660 people, just over a quarter of the theater’s normal capacity. – The Dallas Morning News
Tag: 12.10.20
France’s Concert Halls, Theatres, Cinemas Will Stay Closed Until At Least Jan. 7
“[The country] has been in a second lockdown phase since the end of October, and while daily COVID-19 cases have considerably decreased over the past several weeks, they have recently hit a plateau that is about double the hoped for 5K ceiling.” – Deadline
With No Theatre In Paris, A Critic Reviews The Last Show In Town — At Church
Laura Cappelle: “On paper, a Roman Catholic Mass and a stage performance aren’t all that different: Both events involve a cast of professionals addressing a seated, and now socially distanced, audience. The connections don’t stop there. … The ritualistic nature of the event, the dramatic buildup from scene to scene — even the slightly labored monologues — are all part and parcel of regular theater attendance.” – The New York Times
What Theatre Learned About Being Online This Year
The Broadway productions of “Hamilton” and “What the Constitution Means to Me” reemerged as films that give a wider audience the best seats in the house. These are stage performances filmed and edited to preserve as much theatrical dynamism as possible. – Los Angeles Times
Deaccession Dejection: Whither the Embattled Baltimore Museum of Art? (plus: Brooklyn’s castoffs)
The BMA’s deaccession debacle has put the reputations of the museum itself and the Association of Art Museum Directors at risk. What still isn’t clear is whether the sales of those three works have been merely “paused” (in the words of the museum’s press release) or canceled. – Lee Rosenbaum