#i have to get a covid test on monday bc that's five days since the guy came into my house without a mask on

[sluttyten]

I’ve had to go into work early every day this week despite only being scheduled that way for 3/5 days, and I’ve had to stay an hour longer 2/5 days so far (today will probably make it 3 days) and I’m so glad it’s Friday

[hackedmotionsensors]

i spent a lot of last year being really upset about it. I mean the pandemic really exacerbated everything. And made an unmedicated adhd kid like me feel things a million times worse. Especially on top of studio and comic book work the thing i loved to take joy in was bleeding the joy away esp bc like....what happened to this person? What happened to that person? Why doesn’t this person talk to me anymore? Is my art just really bad and they lost interest? Did they move on? Lol Was I too much of a bitch?(highly likely I tend to pop off)

All of that was kind of a lot and its why I hid a lot of my stevetony art bc I wanted to like...really move on. but I’m someone who never TRULY moves on? Bc like...if you put an X-men movie in front of me I will go BANANAS over cherik. I will still get all sad over The Hobbit (but both of those are bc I’ve been a fan of both since I was a kid....not necessarily the ships but the series as a whole).

And like I still talk to people who’ve moved on here and there and like ...its kind of like “Okay i know where so and so is. They’re  clearly not vibing this old fandom anymore but they’ve got things they’re doing but if I make a joke with them its like....oh hello I’m still here”.

I think on top of fandom stuff its also that...I feel genuinely alone more than I ever have bc of quarantine??? I can’t see my parents. My mom acted really STUPID over the holidays and i haven’t had a chance to check in. She wouldn’t tell me if she got sick anyway. I don’t have the buffer of seeing my IRL friends or even a pet to talk to. I talk to my landlady lmfao And she’s an 80 year old seven day adventist so its not.....super EASY unless we talk about plants lmfao

I can’t even talk to my dork ass coworkers IRL and my exercise routine completely dropped off the face of the planet. Please come back from the war willingness to go outside!! But we can’t really do that either bc LA is the epicenter for the worst of the covid outbreaks.

So it htis a little harder maybe? When you’re like “hey i used to see this person all the time in the notes or comments or we would chat on twitter but now I get nothing” and its like...hmm. Oh. And depending on the mood I either got super fucking sad about it or I got furious lol Or some hot take would piss me off and Id be like well fuck this person. This isn’t normal lol this is what happens to weirdos who only spend all their time on the internet but that’s literally what we’re all doing lately.

Sorry this meant to be about idk fandom??? And just basically dwindled down to I’m lonely and should probably get a cat

[noheroes-allowed]

I hate how volatile my moods are. like I woke up feeling stressed on wednesday bc of my assignments. but then it started raining and I got out of bed really late after listening to a song I loved and the ambiance of that against the rain lifted me. and then he asked me to get dinner with everyone and I got so excited. but thursday I was tired for no reason and ate caffeine in the evening so I could enjoy dinner, which I did. and I was fine until literally midday friday when this intense sadness just washed over me. and why? friday was so non-stressful on paper. why? all I did was lay in bed and read. and then in the evening I had a slight breakdown but I didn’t let myself go through it and started doing homework instead bc I suddenly felt like I just needed to be productive and I was wasting time. this morning I tried to be functional. I went to ithaca tofu hoping to buy mooncakes but I should’ve known they would’ve been out of stock by now and bought snacks to try to make myself feel better that weren’t really worth the price. and this snack I loved when I was in china at 12 years old was on sale, and I haven’t had it since 2017 probably and I bought it for myself and yet I felt nothing. no excitement. 

the guy directing the covid test this morning asked me if I was having a good day and I said ‘I guess.’ he asked what would make it better and I don’t know. I didn’t even do anything today. all I did was cook and eat and read and walk around and do the things I supposedly enjoy and yet nothing. what’s wrong with me? why did I feel so fucking down for no fucking reason? I’m trying to understand it but it doesn’t make sense. nothing even happened. nothing fucking happened. I just. can’t fucking function and be a normal human being. 

on thursday, dhanush said something offhandedly to sergio that this was our final year and sergio better treat us well. jokingly. and idk maybe that stirred something in me. and on friday I had a dream about someone I cared about who’s no longer in my life and even in my dreams we were distant and awkward. and how jenny applied to segc and I feel like she was trying to catch me up with things about her. and how ivy made me feel like she didn’t actually expect me to take up on her offer of hanging out. and how I called maggie last saturday and we were talking about jobs and interviews and where we’ll be in a year. and maybe I’m thinking about how as the years go on, it just seems like I’m losing people so quickly. not to be dramatic but my circle just keeps dwindling, and if not dwindling, shifting in the nature of our relationships, and who do I even feel comfortable around anymore? and maybe I’m thinking about how my life is going to look like in a year. and just. what is the goddamn point of it all? these people in my life right now holding on by a string, I won’t even know them in a year. maybe I’m thinking about how transient and circumstantial everything is and ‘in this terrifying world, all we have are the connections we make.’ but what the hell are my connections? how many will I have remaining? 

I’m retroactively lonely and I’m proactively lonely. I’m goddamn lonely. there’s no one I can talk to about my day. I want to talk about stupid shit that goes on during my day. like my monday interview when my interviewer said ‘maybe I’ll see you in a conference call one day’ or the puppy wrapped up in a blanket I saw or the string lights that were hung up on the suspension bridge for one day that would’ve made it so pretty for next thursday but they’re no longer there now or the book I’m reading and how I think it may be contributing to how sad I am lately bc it’s about this group of four friends and just their relationships with other people and each other and how their bonds have changed over time and how fragile even their relationships are when they were so fucking strong in the beginning or the snacks I bought this morning and how I should be so happy eating those dumb potato chips I used to love as a kid that I haven’t had in years but I just felt like shit bc I’ve been eating and eating all day. 

I have been trying really hard lately to enjoy the little things and try to find things I love and letting myself do the things I love. but it’s hard when the thing I really want is people in my life. good people, good relationships, meaning to my life. I hate how intensely I’m feeling things right now. I think this is who I truly am. I’ve been trying to be more laid-back recently not just for school, but for life things too. and I think part of me was trying to fit into this fake it until you make it mentality. I faked it but I didn’t make it. I feel like there’s a timer on my life right now. maybe I’m thinking about that a part of me was probably trying to protect myself by concluding I didn’t want an actual relationship just bc of the timing of everything and. idk is a part of me holding back bc I’m scared? bc he’s told me what he wants. and what if I trying to de-intensify myself so I can fit into that mold. when he told me how the girl he went out with on a thursday, wanted to facetime him on a sunday and in the moment I truly thought, and said ‘that’s a lot.’ (although, maybe part of me thought that way bc they had just met.) but today, I was walking to campus to read at the grassy part above the bookstore and I just wanted to talk to him and see him. and I was acting exactly the way I thought was too much. so what does that say? am I like her? do I want what she wanted? do I want more of him then I let on? I don’t know what I want. and I don’t know what a fucking relationship is. and I can’t sort out or process my feelings and I can’t tell what’s platonic or romantic or real or fake. everything is just a fucking jumbled mess in my head. bc he’s my friend and I already want him in my life and what the hell else do I want. I think this breakdown is so poorly timed bc I can’t compound this with his rejection next thursday. but I need to tell him so I can fucking move beyond it. even though a part of me, a large part of me honestly, will miss speculating if he likes me back. bc then everything will be crystal clear. and I know this sounds fucking insane bc a part of me feels like the other time I felt this way was my last month at umd when I felt like there was a timer on my life. and objectively this timer is longer and I should still be able to enjoy the time I currently have without thinking about their endings. but I guess. I think keith is one of my closest friends right now, just due to the sad nature of my life I’ve hung out with him the most these days, but I don’t think he would consider me the same just given what I know about his circle. but I think I’m missing him already. are we going to be friends in a year? him with his (and mine) dislike for texting and his feeling that facetimes make him feel like he could be doing something else instead. I think our connection is circumstantial (like maggie’s, and ivy’s, and anyone in segc) and we will lose touch so quickly. and fuck how did I think I could do anything casual? we’re not even in a fucking relationship and I’m fucking thinking about how much I’ll miss him in a year. and now I keep second guessing asking to see him bc I don’t want to be too needy and I know he doesn’t like that but. I want to talk to him. it’s a good thing he was busy today bc I might’ve dumped like half of this post onto him in person and that would’ve been embarrassing. I’m mourning something I haven’t lost yet but I know I’m gonna lose. also a part of me can’t stomach the idea that there’s a chance he’s gonna distance himself from me so I can ‘move on’ but. that will literally hurt me more than him just not liking me back.

idk everything just piled on and I just want to stop thinking about the meaning of life and what my life is going to look like in a year, five, twenty, and my fucking relationships and my fucking lack of relationships. I just want to stop thinking so much and getting caught in my head and just be carefree and happy. why is it I can never just be content and satisfied? why do I make up these inane problems in my head? like, was I not happy two days ago at dinner? three days ago with the rain and the texts and finishing my assignments an hour and a half before I expected? five days ago when I felt like my interview went well? I was happy right? why can’t I just hold onto that?

[dipulb3]

Crowds ignore warning and flood Tuscaloosa strip after Alabama crushes Ohio State for national football title

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Crowds ignore warning and flood Tuscaloosa strip after Alabama crushes Ohio State for national football title

For the sixth time under head coach Nick Saban, the top-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide are national champions, pulling away to defeat No. 3 Ohio State 52-24 on Monday night at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, in front of a crowd of 14,926.

Saban now has seven national titles, more than any other coach in history, surpassing the late legendary Crimson Tide coach Paul “Bear” Bryant, who had six.

“I’m just happy that we won tonight,” Saban said. “I really haven’t thought about that because you’re always looking forward. I just love this team so much and what they’ve been able to do. I can’t even put it into words.”

In addition to his six championships with Alabama, Saban won the national title when he was at the helm at LSU, with the Tigers winning the BCS title game in 2003.

After the game, hundreds of revelers packed several blocks of University Boulevard in Tuscaloosa — the University of Alabama’s home — celebrating the win on a strip known for its bars and restaurants near the western edge of campus.

The university and the city’s mayor had asked fans before the game to avoid large gatherings, keep 6 feet of distance between others and wear masks. Many of the postgame revelers were not wearing face coverings, images on social media show.

The state also is under a “safer at home” order, which generally requires people to wear masks when they’re in public and within 6 feet of others. The celebrations came as Alabama — like the country as a whole — was hovering at or near all-time highs for average daily new Covid-19 cases and deaths, Johns Hopkins University data show.

On the field, Alabama has won six national titles with Saban in the last 12 seasons, and it’s the 11th time in the last 15 seasons that a team from the Southeastern Conference has lifted the national crown.

When speaking to reporters, Saban, 69, said he didn’t think anyone compares to Bryant.

“His legacy lasted over a long, long period of time,” Saban said. “We all have to adjust with the times. Obviously things are a little different now. The challenges are a little bit different with the spread offense, the things that make it more difficult I think to play good defense in this day and age.

“I think Coach Bryant is sort of in a class of his own in terms of what he was able to accomplish, what his record is, the longevity that he had and the tradition he established. If it wasn’t for Coach Bryant, we would never be able to do what we did. I mean, he’s the one that made Alabama and the tradition at Alabama a place where lots of players wanted to come. We’ve been able to build on that with great support.”

Alabama quarterback Mac Jones was asked if Saban is the greatest college football coach of all time.

“Come on, man. Of course he is,” Jones said. “How could he not be? He does it the right way. He recruits well, but more importantly develops great players and young men. I’m just so blessed that he gave me a chance to come here along with all my teammates. I wouldn’t trade it for anything. He’s the greatest to ever do it. He’ll be the greatest for a long time.”

Tide players rack up records

At 13-0, Alabama ended a dominant season as the nation’s only undefeated team. The Crimson Tide also avenged their loss to the Buckeyes in the inaugural College Football Playoff semifinals in the 2014 season.

Jones, despite being hobbled in the second half with what he said was a bone bruise, set or tied multiple CFP title game records: His 36 completions (out of 45 attempts) tied Clemson’s Deshaun Watson. Jones’ 464 passing yards surpassed LSU’s Joe Burrow by one yard, and his five touchdown passes tied Burrow for the record.

Before leaving after suffering a dislocated finger, DeVonta Smith, the winner of this season’s Heisman Trophy and named the offensive MVP on Monday night, set the CFP title game record with 12 receptions (for 215 yards — a record for most receiving yards in a half of the national championship game) and three touchdowns. Najee Harris rushed for 79 yards and two touchdowns and also caught seven passes for 79 yards and one touchdown.

Heading into the fall, the initial outlook for these two teams were quite different. As throughout the US, the pandemic wasn’t handled in the same manner across the college football landscape.

The SEC didn’t waver, opting to play a conference-only schedule for the 2020 season. Though at times impacted by Covid-19 — including Saban having to miss his team’s game against Auburn after a positive test — Alabama had just one game postponed, which would eventually be played later in the season, against LSU.

“To me, this team accomplished more almost than any team,” Saban said. “No disrespect to any other teams that we had or any championship teams. But this team won 11 SEC games. No other team has done that. They won the SEC, went undefeated in the SEC, then they beat two great teams in the playoffs with no break in between.

“This is our fifth game in a row, from LSU to Arkansas to Florida to Notre Dame to here. Played 13 games, went undefeated with all the disruption that we had in this season. I think there’s quite a bit to write about when it comes to the legacy of the team.”

111 college football games canceled in 2020 season

For Ohio State (7-1), vying to become the first team to win a national championship with just an 8-0 record since Minnesota did it in 1941, it wasn’t so straightforward. In fact, it initially looked like Buckeyes wouldn’t get to play at all.

On August 11, the Big Ten Conference announced it was suspending fall sports, including football, because of health and safety concerns related to the pandemic. Just over a month later, on September 16, the conference reversed course, saying football season would resume in late October, which would include a specification that a team would need to play at least six games to be eligible for the conference championship game.

But Covid-19 wreaked havoc on the schedule, and Ohio State had to cancel its game against Illinois, while two other schools (Maryland and Michigan) canceled against the Buckeyes because of their own Covid-19 concerns. That left the Buckeyes, at 5-0, on the outside looking in for the Big Ten title game.

On December 9, officials from the Big Ten voted to amend its policy, which thereby extended Ohio State’s season. The Buckeyes would come back against Northwestern in the Big Ten title game, and then went on to crush Clemson in the Sugar Bowl College Football Playoff semifinal.

According to statistics provided by the College Football Playoff, Ohio State was one of 15 schools that had three games canceled and/or postponed without being made up. In all, according to the CFP, 111 games were canceled throughout the season because of the pandemic.

The Buckeyes were without some of their key players on defense and special teams heading into Monday’s game. Quarterback Justin Fields, banged up from the semifinal Sugar Bowl win against Clemson, wasn’t 100%. Running back Trey Sermon left the game after one carry with an upper-body injury, with ESPN reporting he was hospitalized.

After the game, Ohio State head coach Ryan Day said this loss would motivate his players that are returning next season and praised his team.

“I thought that the culture of our program, the leadership of our program, the way that our kids fought for a season and then came back, dealt with all the adversity along the way of games being canceled, guys being out … for us to continually work through all of that and get to this moment right here was an unbelievable success,” Day said.

“We wanted to win the game. The goal was not to get to here. The goal was to win the game. But all that being said, I couldn’t be prouder of our culture, what our kids are made of and where the program is headed.”

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Parent, superintendent, trustee report smooth return to classrooms in B.C.

VANCOUVER — It was a relatively easy decision for Dean McGee to send his children back to high school in Surrey, B.C., on Monday.

Online learning has worked well enough at home but the opportunity to return to something closer to "normal," if only for a few weeks, was attractive.

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"My kids are doing OK with their actual studies at home if I'm right there to help them or if my wife is right there to help them, but they're definitely missing the classroom component. Plus, we're all ready to get out of the house a little," he said.

"So, when I heard about two weeks ago that the plan was to start going back, we started looking into it and trying to find out exactly what that was going to mean."

Two of McGee's children were among thousands who returned to classrooms Monday for the first time since the pandemic forced schools to close in March.

Attendance is optional and with only a few weeks left before the end of the term, many are looking at this a soft start to identify possible challenges ahead of a potential full return in September.

Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry said on Saturday that the reopening will cause some anxiety, but it will help the province plan for a larger restart in the fall. She urged those who do not feel comfortable to return to continue with online learning.

About 5,000 students, including the children of essential workers and those needing extra support, have already been attending school across the province.

Expanding to a much larger number while also continuing to provide online learning at home has been a significant job, said Stephanie Higginson, president of the BC School Trustees Association.

In the weeks since the health and safety guidelines were released, districts have had to find ways to make them fit into each school environment.

"It's like a game of Whack-A-Mole," she said.

But with the first school day more than halfway through, Higginson said she hadn't received any reports of things going sideways yet.

The planning and preparation that has gone into reopening schools appears to have paid off, she said.

The biggest challenge is convincing families that it's safe.

"What's making international or national news isn't necessarily relevant in B.C. because we've done so well," she said.

Higginson has been fielding many questions from parents relating to the COVID-19 situation in the United States, or how it's unfolded in Italy or South Korea, she said.

In Quebec, the province's education department announced that at least 41 staff and students tested positive for the novel coronavirus in the first two weeks after elementary schools outside the Montreal area reopened.

But Higginson said what happens in other jurisdictions aren't foregone conclusions in B.C.

"Our context is very different."

Stelly's Secondary School in Saanich, B.C., published a video walking tour of the school on the weekend. A vice principal walked down corridors halved with yellow tape for one-way walking and warned students that it may take longer to get where they're going, but it will be safer.

Vancouver school district superintendent Suzanne Hoffman said the first day was going "incredibly well."

"I think when we started the day, certainly there was a degree of anxiety and nerves. But certainly, as the day unfolded, that has been replaced by the excitement of the kids being back in school, the relief that everything went as planned," she said.

About 42 per cent of Vancouver families surveyed said they were planning to return and a little under that number attended, she said.

From a planning perspective, that made it easier to handle, she said.

For McGee, who is also a member of the Surrey District Parents Advisory Council, the decision to send his kids Monday was worth it.

They came home reporting only three kids in one class, and math class outdoors. His youngest said he got lots of work done and his middle child had a learner support teacher session in the library that was staffed with two teachers for five kids.

While he has heard some parents complain that their kids are being used as guinea pigs, McGee doesn't agree. The reopening of schools has coincided with the reopening of many elements of society, including restaurants and other businesses.

But he said there were a few kinks in the change to online learning, like some students having difficulty logging in to online portals, and now is the time to figure those things out for the fall.

"If September still isn't back to 100 per cent, then they will have this couple of weeks to try and figure out how it's going to go," he said.

This report by the Canadian Press was first published on June 1, 2020.

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Patti LuPone sings in her basement for her Twitter followers

A singer from the “Couch Choir” of the Rotterdam Philharmonic sings Burt Bacharach’s (They Long to Be) Close To You — one of the many virtual performances by orchestras and choirs that have sprung up worldwide since the stay-at-home orders

Alvin Ailey’s magnificent 60-year-old “Revelations,” with its inspiring Negro spirituals and spirited modern dancing, (pictured) streamed for free as part of the new online series Ailey All Access , added to the growing list of online offerings

Faith Prince and Richard Kind perform in The Tale of the Allergists Wife on Stars in the House, which is branching out from variety talk show to live readings of full-length plays.

T.R. Knight in “Transition” by David Lindsay-Abaire, one of the plays from 24 Hour Plays’ Viral Monologues, Round 3

Pirates pitcher Steven Brault sings Broadway

Max von Essen sings “What More Can I Do” from Falsettos for Intermission Mission, one of the new online series, this one from Today Tix

J Harrison Ghee from Mrs Doubtfire

In the first week of April, as the news remained scary and theaters remained closed, theater – and especially theater music – became a balm.

Mrs. Doubtfire didn’t open on Sunday, the first of the 10 Broadway openings originally scheduled for April, but they celebrated in song, with a virtual performance of the show’s song “As long as there is love”

The New York Philharmonic canceled its season a couple of weeks ago, but its musicians offered a ravishing Bolero by Ravel, remotely

  For those who’ve enjoyed @nyphil‘s digital “Bolero,” check out earlier virtual orchestra/choir videos — the “couch choir” of @rdamphil (pictured), @CamdenVoices , @BerkleeCollege , @CO_Symphony, @dycireland https://t.co/ijv1Z0wbOK pic.twitter.com/d4s8U3podm

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) April 4, 2020

Bette Midler offered a song for New Yorkers

From some dear New York friends of mine: Sung by Zora Rasmussen Piano by @marcshaiman pic.twitter.com/nAGbOSt9bR

— bettemidler (@BetteMidler) April 2, 2020

Patti LuPone offered us a singing tour of her basement

Ya bored yet? pic.twitter.com/kDZR1jYWyG

— Patti LuPone (@PattiLuPone) April 1, 2020

Even Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Steven Brault was singing this week, releasing a showtunes album with the almost-punning title A Pitch at Broadway A Pitch at Broadway

Oscar winner Parasite debuts on Hulu

Jodie Foster and Robert De Niro in Taxi Driver, on Netflix

James Corden at National Live at Home

She Loves Me on PBS

April 2020 Calendar of “Openings”: What’s Streaming on Netflix, National Theatre, Hulu, PBS Great Performances, Amazon Prime, HBO Etc

New York Theater Quiz for March 2020

Theater Book Reviews

Death By Shakespeare  “Plague shaped Shakespeare’s life,” Kathryn Harkup writes in her new book. Death By Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts (Bloomsbury Sigma, 368 pages, May 2020 publication date.) The first outbreak of the Plague during Shakespeare’s lifetime occurred three months after his birth in 1564, and he was among only one-third of the children in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon to survive. He was just starting to make his name as a playwright in London in 1592, when there was a severe outbreak that resulted in the shuttering of the theaters – drying up opportunity for playwriting and thus pushing the Bard to become a poet, which arguably enhanced his writing when he returned to drama. Plague was so common at the time that authorities decreed that theaters could reopen if the weekly death rate from the epidemic sunk below 50 for three consecutive weeks. And so, Harkup says, it’s no surprise that the Plague pervades Shakespeare’s plays “Death by Shakespeare” doesn’t just fact-check the playwright’s scripts. The author uses death as the lens by which to describe life in Elizabethan England – the conditions, the attitudes, the practices surrounding death. Full review

Terrence McNally Selected Works: A Memoir in Plays Terrence McNally considered Shakespeare and Chekhov his gods, and Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera his goddesses; he learned a lot from all four. That’s what he tells us within the first few pages of Selected Works: A Memoir in Plays (Grove Press, 659 pages) a book published in 2015 that presents the scripts of eight of his plays*, written from 1987 to 2013, interspersed with a few pages of introduction, recollection and digression. full review

Note: Monday night April 6 at 8 p.m., McNally’s Lips Together, Teeth Apart live online reading performed by Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Zachary Quinto and Ari Graynor , in support of the BC/EFA COVID-19 Emergency Assistance Fund

Online Theater Gets Seriously Comic

Stars in the House, which has been a twice-daily online variety hour and talk show, has now added a twice weekly “matinee” – a live reading every Wednesday and Saturday afternoon of popular play performed by a starry cast. They’re calling in Plays in the House. The first up last week were Wendy Wasserstein’s The Heidi Chronicles, performed by the original cast, and Charles Busch’s The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife starring Busch himself (as Marjorie herself) and Richard Kind, Faith Prince,

The hosts promise that future plays will star Harvey Fierstein, Tony Shaloub, and Brooke Adams, among others.

T.R. Knight in “Transition” by David Lindsay-Abaire, one of the plays from 24 Hour Plays’ Viral Monologues, Round 3

Playwright @lindsayabaire on writing plays, successively, for @TheRealDratch (a comedy), Marylouise Burke (a haunting mystery), & @TR_Knight (a fantasy) in @24HourPlays‘ #ViralMonologues. My interview w/ him in @DC_theatrescene: https://t.co/8Zutj6eLda pic.twitter.com/YZc8W1qabf

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) April 3, 2020

Methuen Drama will publish the Viral Monologues as a book, edited by Howard Sherman, who inspired the solo series.

  Added since last week to my roundup Where to Get Your Theater Fix Online: Old Favorites and New Experiments

Ailey All Access

Humana Festival of New Plays offering two of the plays from the season that it had to cancelon stage

Intermission Mission from TodayTix “At home performances from the Broadway community” — basically a single song each day by a different Broadway star

Joe’s Pub Live

L.A. Theatreworks

Play at Home — new original short plays available to read for free commissioned by five great theaters, including the Public Theater and Woolly Mammoth. This echoes what were called “closet plays” during earlier eras when theaters where shut down either because of Plague or political repression. The playwrights then never expected them to be produced, so went wild. Presumably, the 21st century playwrights are just as wild, but expect eventually to see them on stage.

The Shows Must Go On A different Andrew Lloyd Webber musical launches for free every Friday for 48 hours on this new YouTube page. First up: Donny Osmond stars in the 1999 film of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat”

News

Arts industry unemployment claims in New York rise 3,880 percent.

Broadway is still selling tickets for April performances. But why?

The Off-Broadway League has announced that its 2020 Lortel Awards, honoring Off-Broadway will go on as scheduled — nominations April 14, winners at May 3 ceremony — but all now online. This is the only New York theater award so far to keep to its original schedule.

The Bret Adams & Paul Reisch Foundation is offering 40 emergency grants of $2,500 each to playwrights, composers, lyricists and librettists who have had a full professional production cancelled, closed, or indefinitely postponed due to the COVID-19 closures

An inspiring story: Director @JeffWhitingNYC is leading some 900 theater professionals, mostly wardrobe & costume people from Broadway shows, to create protective gear. And that’s just in NYC! Theater pros are helping throughout the country.https://t.co/EnQbRWYpLl

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) April 1, 2020

Pandemic theater is already here examples in this L.A Times article: Skylight Theatre of Los Angeles and the 24 Hour Plays’ Viral Monologues. “Pandemic-set plays were bound to happen sooner or later, and it’s so close to home. Numerous members of the theater community have tested positive for the coronavirus, including Tom Hanks, Aaron Tveit, Daniel Dae Kim, Laura Bell Bundy and Brian Stokes Mitchell. The disease took the lives of Terrence McNally and Adam Schlesinger.”

American Theatre Magazine editor Rob Weiner-Kendt offers a scattershot overview of what’s happening in a piece entitled No Show.: If we can’t have theatre until we can gather again safely, what are U.S. theatres and artists going to do in the meantime, and after? One paragraph:

“Theatre has survived worse, even in its cradle. The plague of Athens killed some 25 percent of its population in 430 B.C.E., and inspired the Theban plague in Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex. Shakespeare’s career was famously interrupted by the Black Plague, during which time, as [San Diego’s Old Globe artistic director Barry] Edelstein pointed out, the Bard and his colleagues did three things: “They made plans for what they were going to do when theatres reopened. They toured the provinces, sold props, costumes, bundled plays and sold them—that’s how the First Folio got made. And they went to the King and said, ‘Help.’”

Rest in Peace

Adam Schlesinger, 52, from COVID-19. Known for his work with his band Fountains of Wayne and on the TV show “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,” he was also a 2-time Broadway veteran (comical co-songwriter of Cry Baby and Act of God)

a sweet “egobituary” about Adam Schlesinger https://t.co/IdQB1YiS8Q

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) April 2, 2020

William Wolf, 94, theater critic who wrote reviews and columns for Cue and New York magazines and taught at NYU.He was a past president of the Drama Desk. He too died from complications from the coronavirus.

The NYC health workers who have died of COVID-19

#AloneTogether, singing! Online theater gets seriously comic. #Stageworthy News of the Week In the first week of April, as the news remained scary and theaters remained closed, theater – and especially theater music – became a balm.

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So tonight my land lady didn’t tell me she was bringing over the guy who fixes stuff around the house and he came into my house without a mask before I got a chance to give him one of my extra ones. 

So for an ENTIRE YEAR I’ve been safe at being alone not counting times I’ve gone out for food or groceries (or my ill advised apple picking trip which was fun but stressful bc apparently san bernardino was very drummpft supporty and non-mask-wearing-y)

Luckily he wasn’t in the house for very long and I sprayed and cleaned everything in the vicinity as best I could. And I was wearing a mask the whole time he was inside. But that still was a goddamn breach and so I can’t go get my own groceries I have to get another covid test on Monday (five days from now) but yknow.

What a cool fun time to wait until monday. Like I don’t blame him for working or coming over and I don’t even really blame my land lady for FINALLY taking care of this window situation that I’ve had since I moved in almost seven years ago but.........dammit like we’re literally in a pandemic why the fuck were you not wearing a mask my dude.