“As the coronavirus pandemic slowly loosens its grip, theaters, orchestras and opera companies across the country are heading outdoors, grabbing whatever space they can find as they desperately seek a way back to the stage,” writes Michael Paulson in Tuesday’s (3/16) New York Times. “Large-scale indoor work remains a ways off in much of the country, as producers wait not only for herd immunity, but also for signs that arts patrons are ready to return in significant numbers…. But all around the country, companies that normally produce outdoors but were unable to do so last year are making plans to reopen, while those that normally play to indoor crowds are finding ways to take the show outside…. Mark Volpe, the president and chief executive of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, said that … he will ask his board to approve a plan to hold performances … at Tanglewood, the company’s outdoor campus in Western Massachusetts. The season, if approved, would be just six weeks, mostly on weekends … Nonetheless, the prospect of once again hearing live music on the vast lawn is thrilling.… The Los Angeles Philharmonic Association said it anticipates limited-capacity live performances at the Hollywood Bowl this summer.”
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