We miss theater. And we know you do too. So we asked you to share some memories with us.
We miss theater. And we know you do too. So we asked you to share some memories with us.
Miss Live Theater? You’re Not Alone.
ByMichael PaulsonOct. 15, 2020
Miss Live Theater? You’re Not Alone.
Miss Live Theater? You’re Not Alone.
We miss theater. And we know you do too. So we asked you to share some memories with us.
Here’s what you had to say →
Miss Live Theater? You’re Not Alone.
Barbara Golder sent us this photo of Lin-Manuel Miranda greeting Ben Golder-Novick (a musician known as “Ben the Sax Guy”) and his family after a performance of “Hamilton” in 2015.
Miss Live Theater? You’re Not Alone.
The folk singer Christine Lavin loves theater, and she especially loves “The Drowsy Chaperone.” “I saved all my 68 tickets and turned them into 2-sided placemats,” she wrote. “When I sit down to a meal I remember how each ticket represents such a fun night.”
Miss Live Theater? You’re Not Alone.
Linda Taft MacKinnon regularly organizes large groups “to take advantage of one of the greatest reasons to live here — live theater.” In this photo are some of the 80 people she brought to see “Jagged Little Pill” in New York City, greeting the show’s orchestrator and arranger, Tom Kitt.
Miss Live Theater? You’re Not Alone.
“I saw ‘Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill’ for my 56th Bday and then twice after that,” wrote a reader named Haynes. Audra McDonald, he said, “is always a gracious star at the Stage Door.”
Miss Live Theater? You’re Not Alone.
“A fantastic moment of actor/audience intensity that live theater can offer,” wrote Bruce Bouchard, who shared Michael O’Brien’s photo of an encounter at “Elvis Lives” in Rutland, Vt. “We miss it dearly.”
Miss Live Theater? You’re Not Alone.
Of course, theater goes on. Here, Ray Chambers and Hawthorne James face not only a pandemic, but a blackout, while rehearsing “Necessary Sacrifices” for North Coast Repertory Theater in Solana Beach, Calif.
Miss Live Theater? You’re Not Alone.
We talked about missing theater with Hillary Clinton, Audra McDonald, Neil Patrick Harris, Danielle Brooks and Jessie Mueller for the latest episode of Offstage, our digital series about theater during the pandemic.
Watch it here