That was as true for the invited audience of workers from the Actors Fund and Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS as it was for the performers. The entry was the latest facet of the NY PopsUp festival, a months-long series across New York state meant to rev up culture-deprived fans and test the safety protocols that could normalize large-scale concert-, recital- and playgoing again. Over the next 10 weeks, similar pop-ups with other performers will be held in nine additional Broadway houses. New York state officials, through the governor’s coronavirus task force, have been testing the efficacy for months of the protocols for public gatherings. What followed in the presentation was Lane in “Playbills,” a new monologue by the gifted comic playwright and screenwriter Paul Rudnick.

Source: Washington Post April 04, 2021 18:03 UTC