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  1. WASHINGTON POST: HOW BROADWAY IS WORKING TO ENSURE COVID DOESN'T BRING THE CURTAIN DOWN AGAIN

    Geselowitz, Gabriela – Fri, 30 Jul 2021 15:15:00 GMT – 0

    This theater game was in deadly earnest.

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  2. WASHINGTON POST: BIDEN VOWS HIS SUPPORT FOR THE 'CRITICAL ROLE' THE ARTS PLAY IN AMERICA

    Geselowitz, Gabriela – Fri, 04 Jun 2021 19:28:00 GMT – 0

    President Biden celebrated the role of the arts and artists in American society on Friday, using the Kennedy Center Honors as a moment to reflect on the arts’ powerful contributions, which he said were especially evident this year.

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  3. WASHINGTON POST: THE UNION FOR ACTORS ON BROADWAY AND IN REGIONAL THEATERS ENDORSES BIDEN-HARRIS

    Geselowitz, Gabriela – Mon, 21 Sep 2020 14:15:00 GMT – 0

    Taking a rare sidestep from neutrality, the union representing more than 51,000 stage actors and managers across the United States announced Monday its endorsement of the Democratic presidential ticket of Joe Biden and Kamala D. Harris.

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  4. WASHINGTON POST: DISNEY SET TO REOPEN PARKS IN FLORIDA, HOPING FOR A SMALL MEASURE OF REBOUND

    Geselowitz, Gabriela – Mon, 13 Jul 2020 14:53:00 GMT – 0

    A critical test of the entertainment economy’s reopening plans is set to take place as Disney begins allowing visitors to return to its Florida locations.

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  5. WASHINGTON POST: STAGE ACTORS UNION SAYS NO THEATERS ARE SAFE WITHOUT THESE GUIDELINES FOR REOPENING

    Geselowitz, Gabriela – Wed, 27 May 2020 14:15:00 GMT – 0

    With its entire membership of 51,000 professional actors and stage managers out of work, Actors’ Equity Association on Tuesday announced the health and safety guidelines it expects theaters to follow before it will authorize its members to return to the stage.

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  6. WASHINGTON POST: PERFORMERS ARE AMONG THE MOST VULNERABLE VICTIMS OF OUR NEWLY SHUTTERED WORLD

    Geselowitz, Gabriela – Thu, 02 Apr 2020 15:39:00 GMT – 0

    Actor Evan Casey was two weeks into the run of “The Amateurs” at Olney Theatre Center — a play set during a 14th-century plague — when the Maryland venue closed because of coronavirus concerns. His actress wife, Tracy Lynn Olivera, was deep into her duties as assistant director of “Guys and Dolls,” the spring production at Ford’s Theatre, when that musical was shut down. It has been rescheduled for next spring.

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  7. WASHINGTON POST: NEW YORK IS ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREAT CITIES FOR THE ARTS — BUT THE DAMAGE FROM THE PANDEMIC IS PROVING TO BE CATASTROPHIC

    Geselowitz, Gabriela – Wed, 01 Apr 2020 14:10:00 GMT – 0

    NEW YORK — Every weekday at 3 p.m., leaders from across one of the world's great cities for the arts join a conference call to talk about an ever-expanding catastrophe. Made up of organizations as grand as Carnegie Hall and as small as Queens Theatre, the Cultural Institutions Group discusses everything from staff furloughs to now-vacant spaces that could be lent to hospitals overburdened by the novel coronavirus.

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