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  It's Zoom Zoom Zoom Time as Stages Re-adjusts Its Schedule

  July 14 at 4 a.m.

  Pivoting with the best of them, Stages has once again redesigned its 2020-21 theater season, moving three plays to virtual viewing status, replacing some plays with ones with fewer cast members on stage and — perhaps most surprisingly (and ingeniously?)  — working with playwrights to rewrite some scripts to acknowledge...

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  COVID First Responders Bare Their Pain in The Line

  July 13 at 4 a.m.

  A show comprised of real-life interviews with COVID first responders while we’re still in the middle of a global pandemic. Sounds like theatrical redundancy. After all, aren’t we already taken into the belly of the emergency response beast via the embedded journalists, personal essays, and social media videos that document...

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  Texas RenFest Plans an October Return and is Looking For Actors Now

  July 9 at 4 a.m.

  The Texas Renaissance Festival is looking for actors, holding auditions over the next two (maybe three) weekends to ensure that if everything goes as planned, they'll be opening their doors in October as in years past. Of course, somewhat appropriately for a special event fixed in the 16th Century, this...

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  Landing Theatre Company Moves Its Playwriting Festival Online

  July 7 at 4 a.m.

  The New American Voices Playwriting Festival, now in its ninth year, will move online this year because of the coronavirus, its sponsor The Landing Theatre Company has announced. The festival, originally planned for April, will now take place July 28 through August 2. In addition to the four new winning...

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  Broadway at the Hobby Delays Two Shows Till 2021

  July 1 at 11:34 a.m.

  Broadway at the Hobby has just announced two of its shows planned for this fall will instead be delayed until 2021, citing the difficulty of negotiating "the challenges of scheduling touring Broadway shows during this unprecedented time." My Fair Lady previously scheduled for September 29 through October 4, 2020 has...

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  Musical Theater Resurrected! For One Performance At Least

  June 20 at 12:59 p.m.

  Hooray! Theater has finally opened in Houston! The venue is the intimate cabaret space, The Music Box Theater. It's the size of a shoe box, long and narrow, but the revues produced within are expansive and roof-raising, the current one being no exception. The Fab 5 performers – Rebekah Dahl,...