Courtesy venueYouTube TheaterA rendering of YouTube Theater branding. An exterior sign will transform into a video screen for patrons to interact with the streaming platform’s content. Digital streaming monolith YouTube has signed naming rights for the new 6,000-seat performance venue that’s part of the massive Hollywood Park sports and entertainment […]
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How to make your own backyard movie theater
School’s out, the weather is warm, we all want to be outside and all those come together nicely to make the perfect recipe for a backyard movie night. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — So you’ve got all these movies sitting around. You have throwbacks, DVDs animated movies and everything on all the […]
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The Lyric removes the Modell name from its historic Baltimore theater, severing relationship with benefactors
The Modell name has been removed from the 127-year-old Baltimore theater that the philanthropic family once helped bail out. When the letters spelling out Patricia and Arthur Modell’s names came down March 30, it left a dark shadow on the tan brick exterior, not unlike the effect that the falling-out […]
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Matthew Broderick Misses the Theater Very Much
With the New York charity circuit on hiatus, here is how some philanthropists and society figures are spending their time and resources during the pandemic. Matthew Broderick Age: 59 Occupation: actor, singer Favorite Charity: the Actors Fund Where have you been hunkering down? For the past few months, we’ve been […]
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Red Eye Theater to have a new home; JazzMN Quintet to perform
Illusion Theater is moving to the Center for Performing Arts. The Playwrights’ Center will relocate to a former office/warehouse building in St. Paul’s Creative Enterprise Zone. And, announced yesterday, Red Eye Theater will have a new home in Seward. Yes, we’re still in a pandemic, and no, we don’t know […]
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Digital archive will preserve doomed Utah Theater but not the historic playhouse itself
First-class repository at U. library will include virtual reality tours, but advocates lament loss of the real thing. (Salt Lake City, via Modern Out West) Watercolor of Main Street exterior. Before demolition, the once-majestic Utah Theater on Salt Lake City’s Main Street — a dilapidated and vacant 102-year-old performing arts […]
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TikTok ‘Ratatouille’ musical points to the future of theater
A standout moment of the 2007 movie “Ratatouille,” about a rat who teams with a human to achieve his culinary dreams, comes when cynical restaurant critic Anton Ego is served the titular food. Though he’s initially confused by the offering in a former five-star eatery — one chef calls the […]
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Covid-19 Will Go, But Streaming Live Theater Is Here to Stay
When theater companies started live-streaming play readings, concerts, and other events last spring, after Covid-19 shut down stages, most figured it was a temporary fix—but not Stellar CEO Jim McCarthy, who points to BTS. On the face of it, K-pop’s global superstar boyband doesn’t seem to have much in common […]
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I brought theater home with ‘Shipwreck,’ an audio-only political play perfect for the pandemic [Unscripted column] | Food + Living
On an Election Day like no other, my first attempt at distraction took me on a time warp back to 2017. The time machine was “Shipwreck: A History Play about 2017,” which focuses on a group of friends meeting at a farmhouse in upstate New York. Trapped in a snowstorm, […]
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MoviE-town’s contents to be sold at auction following pandemic-inspired closure of Elizabethtown theater | Local Business
When the coronavirus pandemic forced MoviE-town to shut down in March, its doors closed on digital projectors, screens, concessions equipment, movie posters and theater seats, including some new leather-style seats that had yet to be installed. Then in April when the Elizabethtown movie theater’s owner announced that the closure would […]
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COVID-19 Hasn’t Killed The Movie Theater, But A Lot Of Changes Are Ahead
Like everything else on this beleaguered planet, the entertainment industry has seen its unfair share of COVID-19 damage. Productions and live events ground to a halt in mid-March, leaving countless people out of work. Many expensive films were shelved indefinitely. Broadcast networks have scrambled to fill programming holes in their […]