A work unfinishing: March 2021

Monday, March 29, 2021

Weekly Margin 2021, W13: Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue, Looking Back at Contact

Streaming Theater Related Content I Watched

APT's Winter Words reading of Elliot, a Soldier's Fugue.
Lincoln Center's Looking Back at Contact.

Theater Developments

Mayor de Blasio has announced his intention of reopening Broadway by September. Theater workers in New York are expected to be vaccine-eligible in April.

Monday, March 22, 2021

Weekly Margin 2021, W12: The Aran Islands, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Glass Town, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Streaming Theater Related Content I Watched

Irish Rep's The Aran Islands.
Associated Theatres Limited's film adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray.
The Tank's concert presentation of Glass Town.
Lincoln Center's archive film of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike.

Monday, March 15, 2021

Weekly Margin 2021, W11: Dear Brutus, Assassins Reunion Show, Stevie Smith: Black March, Daddy Long Legs, Three Days of Rain

Streaming Theater-Related Content I Watched

APT's Zoom reading of Dear Brutus.
Studio Tenn Talks's Assassins Reunion Show.
Dead Poets Live's presentation of Stevie Smith: Black March.
Stream Theatre's presentation of Daddy Long Legs.
MTC's Zoom reading of Three Days of Rain.

Blow Out the Candles, Zelda, and Make a Wish (One Year In)

Today is my birthday. One year ago today I had my last social gathering without masks: two friends came over to my apartment for Chinese food and board games.

Four days before my birthday I had seen my last live theater, the inadvertent closing performance of The Inheritance (Broadway was to shut down completely the next day, March 12th, which marked for me the moment New York began taking this seriously).

Four days after my birthday my office shifted from skeleton crew to full remote and I had my first COVID symptoms (neither of my friends got sick). I recovered. Many did not. New York became a haunted city and I was shut up in my apartment for the transition.