Art installations arrive to Utah’s “skiable outdoor art museum”

www.archpaper.com: Across the white, snow-covered slope of Eden, Utah’s, Powder Mountain, eight small fires flicker to life, a stack of boulders leans sideways, and a chairlift becomes a work of contemporary art. These works by Nancy Holt, Nobuo Sekine, and E.J. Hill were installed as part of the first phase of the Powder Art Foundation’s plan to turn the Utah ski resort into a year-round outdoor art museum.

Learning & Growing: Taking On The Challenge Of Reinforcing An Outdoor Opera Production

ProSoundWeb: Working with a young team in addressing some of the unforeseen challenges involved with taking a traditionally acoustic genre into a natural amphitheater configuration.

Dallas Opera puts its show on the road with special tricked-out truck

CultureMap Dallas: The Dallas Opera is bringing productions of family fare to communities around Dallas with its new OperaTruck, an 18-wheel flatbed “big rig” that has been customized as an outdoor mobile stage, the organization announced on April 12.

A giant outdoor performing arts center is opening in Lincoln Center this April

www.timeout.com/newyork: As part of the much discussed New York Arts Revival project, the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts just announced its plans to create a giant outdoor performing arts center that will include ten different performance and rehearsal spaces. Dubbed Restart Stages, the effort was crafted with the help of medical and public health professionals, ensuring that all staff, future audiences and artists will be protected by COVID-19-related safety protocols.

San Diego Opera announces spring drive-in opera festival

The San Diego Union-Tribune: Following on the success of its outdoor productions of “La bohème” and “All is Calm” last fall, San Diego Opera has announced a two-weekend drive-in opera festival this spring in the Pechanga Arena San Diego parking lot.

#WeMakeEvents Gives Evidence at DCMS Hearing on UK Festivals

Lighting&Sound America Online - News: On Tuesday, February 2, #WeMakeEvents gave evidence during a DCMS Select Committee inquiry into the future of UK festivals, represented by the leader of the campaign's political group Duncan Bell who detailed the ongoing challenges faced by the live events and entertainment industry.

Inauguration Fireworks by Strictly FX

LiveDesignOnline: Strictly FX lit up the skies of Washington DC for Joseph R. Biden's inauguration celebration on January 20, 2021. And it seems as if everyone is in agreement that the pyro show was a sensational way to close the evening's festivities, with pop star Katy Perry singing "Firework" as pyrotechnics exploded over our capital's monuments and the COVID-19 memorial.

With Mardi Gras Parades Canceled, New Orleans Residents Are Turning Their Houses Into Floats

Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine: Under normal circumstances, New Orleans’ Mardi Gras celebrations are veritable bacchanals filled with throngs of people throwing gold, green and purple beads from ornately decorated parade floats. Amid a global pandemic, however, pressing against crowds of strangers is a more frightening than festive prospect.

Think Outside the Opera House, and Inside the Parking Garage

The New York Times: It was around the time when Brünnhilde summoned her horse to ride into a funeral pyre, setting off a world-cleansing fire and flood, that I found myself fighting back tears. Perhaps it was this performance of the climactic Immolation Scene from Wagner’s “Götterdämmerung,” sung with a frightening blend of ferocity and euphoria by the soprano Christine Goerke.

Bloomfield Garden Club puts eclectic artists on a backyard stage

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Drag diva Veronica Bleaus (John Musser) arrives in a Bloomfield backyard on the bed of a silver Toyota Tacoma. Scott Andrew, a multimedia artist and longtime collaborator, turns on a hose.

“John is desperately trying to perform while I am essentially hosing him down,” explains Andrew, who teaches animation and video at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. “We don’t really take ourselves too seriously when we’re working together.”

Giant refugee puppet to walk from Syria to UK in public art event

World news | The Guardian: A giant puppet of a nine-year-old refugee girl will travel 4,971 miles (8,000km) from the Turkey-Syria border through Europe to the UK in what is being billed as one of the most ambitious public artworks ever attempted.

The Good Chance team behind The Jungle, the celebrated dramatisation of refugee life in Calais, is teaming up with the creators of the War Horse puppets to present an adventurous work that will last from April to July next year.

Manual Cinema’s “Frankenstein” at City Theatre’s Drive-In at Hazelwood Green

The Pittsburgh Tatler: Mary Shelley is said to have invented the genre of science fiction with Frankenstein, or, the Modern Prometheus, a novel she wrote in response to a competition proposed by Lord Byron during a cold summer she and her husband Percy Bysshe Shelley spent at Byron’s villa on Lake Geneva. Her novel combines elements from the epistolary novel, the gothic romance, and the ghost story to extrapolate the impact of her protagonist Dr. Frankenstein’s quest to use his scientific knowledge to bring dead matter to life.

LA: The L.A. River Is About To Become An Immersive Epicenter

by NoPro Newswire | Sep, 2020 | No Proscenium: The Guide To Everything Immersive: The nonprofit River LA, which works “ to bring people, water and nature together along all 51 miles of the Los Angeles River” has brought on experiential arts veteran Mikhael Tara Garver to head up a new multi-year initiative “Rio Reveals,” which gets its start next month with a media preview, followed by the public-facing Rio Records, “which combines art, music, history, design and storytelling into a collaborative, immersive online adventure for 100 guests per interactive performance.

San Diego Opera plans drive-in 'La bohème' next month

The San Diego Union-Tribune: Determined to open its season with Puccini’s “La bohème” despite the pandemic, San Diego Opera will move out of the concert hall and into the parking lot next month to become one of the first professional opera companies in America to present a “drive-in” production.

Macy’s plans smaller but camera-ready Thanksgiving parade

PBS NewsHour: A Macy’s Thanksgiving parade reimagined for the coronavirus pandemic will feature floats, performers and giant balloons along a one-block stretch of 34th Street in front of the retailer’s flagship Manhattan store, Macy’s officials announced Monday.

“Drive in Arts Festival” at City Theatre

The Pittsburgh Tatler: This past weekend saw the opening of the “Drive-In Arts Festival” in Hazelwood. Imagine a mashup between an open air music festival and a drive-in movie and you’ll have a pretty good idea of the setup in the parking lot of Mill 19 at Hazelwood Green. When you pull into the lot, attendants direct you to park in a carefully staggered arrangement that affords each vehicle a view of both a small stage and an adjacent large screen.

The Catamounts' "The Rough" brings theater to the golf course

theknow.denverpost.com: On a golf course fairway, fairway … .

OK, that’s not as deft as the “Star Wars” crawl, but in these theater-depleted times, the Catamounts’ “The Rough” is a welcome adventure — and then some. The Boulder-based company has added a fresh set of dates for the sold-out outdoor, socially distanced romp at Westminster’s Legacy Ridge Golf Course, through Sept. 6.

Actors' Equity Approves Alliance Theatre's Plans To Produce A Drive-in Radio Play

www.broadwayworld.com: Atlanta's Alliance Theatre has announced that its upcoming drive-in production of A Christmas Carol: The Live Radio Play has been approved by Actors' Equity Association.

"We are so thankful for this collaboration with our union partners," said Susan V. Booth. "Everyone in our industry is working towards finding safe and creative solutions to producing theater during this unprecedented time. We feel confident this is a right step in that direction."

Take It Outside! Fresh Air Venues for Safer Events

www.meetingsnet.com: According to preliminary Covid-19 research, outdoor meetings are safer than ones held in enclosed environments. Many hotels already offer terraces and patios, including a rooftop deck at the new Westin adjacent to the Anaheim Convention Center, and the 3,000-square-foot waterfront venue which will debut with the new JW Marriott Savannah Plant Riverside District, but here are some unique and interesting recently-opened or in-the-works meeting venues where your guests can breathe easy.

Barrington Stage Company Forced to Move Equity-Approved HARRY CLARKE Outdoors

www.broadwayworld.com: The Barrington Stage Company (BSC) production of Harry Clarke, starring Mark H. Dold and directed by Founder/Artistic Director Julianne Boyd, will move outdoors to follow Massachusetts state guidelines on safe reopening in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.