Theater uses its creativity to defy pandemic and stage shows
Associated Press
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Tony Award-winner Jefferson Mays performs during a one-man high-tech A Christmas Carol Live that is being filmed for streaming this month at the empty 3,000-seat United Palace. The one-man show is an example of how many who work in the theater are increasingly defying COVID-19 by refusing to let it stop their art. (Courtesy of A Christmas Carol Live via AP)This image released by playwright Natalie Margolin shows, top row from left, Francesca Carpanini, Olivia Puckett, Kathryn Gallagher, Ben Platt, second row from left, Ashley Park, Molly Gordon, Beanie Feldstein, Ayo Edebiri and bottom row from left, Catherine Cohen and Max Sheldon, in scene from the Zoom play The Party Hop," a play specifically to be performed on Zoom. (Natalie Margolin via AP)This image released by Berkshire Theatre Group shows David Adkins, left, and Tim Jones during a performance of "Holiday Memories" at The Colonial Theatre in Pittsfield, Mass. (Emma K. Rothenberg-Ware/Berkshire Theatre Group via AP)This image released by The Irish Repertory Theatre shows Melissa Errico during a performance of Meet Me in St. Louis. Charlotte Moore, the artistic director and co-founder of the acclaimed Irish Repertory Theatre in New York City, has put on a free streaming of the holiday production with a dozen cast members, each filmed remotely and then digitally stitched together. (Muireann Lalor/The Irish Repertory Theatre via AP)
Tony Award-winner Jefferson Mays performs during a one-man high-tech A Christmas Carol Live that is being filmed for streaming this month at the empty 3,000-seat United Palace. The one-man show is an example of how many who work in the theater are increasingly defying COVID-19 by refusing to let it stop their art. (Courtesy of A Christmas Carol Live via AP)
