How do you steadiness the calls for of each day news reporting with bigger-picture tasks?

I’m in all probability going to be doing fewer options about particular person exhibits, whereas I deal with extra of those tales concerning the well being of the sector, however I nonetheless wish to write occasional items about artists and artworks. I believe a mixture of tales is what retains a reporter sane.

Do you anticipate doing a number of that reporting in individual?

I hope so. A few days in the past, I went to see “Evita” at American Repertory Theater outdoors of Boston, and over the weekend I went to see a play referred to as “tiny father” at Barrington Stage Company within the Berkshires. On Thursday, I noticed a manufacturing of “Fun Home” on the Studio Theater in Washington, D.C. I’m making an attempt, to the extent I can, to see issues outdoors New York. We must pay extra consideration to nonprofit theaters and theaters outdoors New York — as a result of there are actual challenges in these locations we should be telling our readers about.

What was essentially the most stunning factor you discovered whereas reporting this text?

I used to be struck by what number of theaters at the moment are doing coproductions. It’s fairly dramatic: The Shakespeare Theater Company in D.C. had one coproduction out of six exhibits earlier than the pandemic, and now no less than 5 out of six shall be coproductions this coming season. There’s additionally a number of experimentation with collaboration, which is heartening. Theaters that when noticed themselves both as rivals or simply strangers are far more occupied with discovering methods to assist each other.

Your article touches on quite a few potential options. Which appear most promising?

There’s a coalition forming of theaters in Connecticut that’s speaking about whether or not the theaters would possibly be capable of share set-building capabilities. Those sorts of approaches may need promise. A whole lot of theaters are speaking about the opportunity of both extra authorities help or for extra foundations to take critically the challenges dealing with this subject. There’s a shared sense that box-office income, which has by no means been sufficient to maintain these organizations, shouldn’t be going to be a major a part of the answer.

How will we see an impact on Broadway, which will depend on nonprofit theaters to develop materials and assist artists?

The state of affairs means much less work for artists, actors, writers, administrators and designers. Fewer exhibits are being staged, and people exhibits are sometimes smaller and have shorter runs, which is a problem each for the people who find themselves already established within the subject and the people who find themselves searching for to enter it. There’s simply much less work to go round.