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With The Hollow rescheduled for next spring (pandemic permitting), the honor of opening the fall theater season went to Valley Performing Arts (VPA). The performance will be recorded on video for later distribution online. For one night, an invited audience will see Happy Christmas, Jeeves, a new play based on the P.G. It helps not to have competition!”īeyond Halloween, when ACT opens its stage for the season, it will likewise be a limited affair. “The only reason I can think of was that almost all of the other venues and theatre companies were not planning to reopen until fall… We were pretty much the only game in town, in terms of live theatre. “What baffled me was that we made significant profits on all three shows we produced in early 2021,” Fernandez says.

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“We felt our work to bring entertainment to Anchorage needed to go on we just had to figure out how to do that.”īy spring, when vaccinations became available and the pandemic ebbed, ACT put on live shows for full audiences. “We strove to remain a presence during the rest of 2020,” Fernandez says.

Unlike most other companies, ACT remained active by producing one-man and two-man shows with restricted seating, a radio play, online streaming events, and plays designed for Zoom teleconferences. ACT Executive Director Matt Fernandez says he’s been ad-libbing a schedule since April of 2020: “When our final show of the 66th season was pulled due to coronavirus lockdowns, I came up with the beginnings of a replacement season that could function within the limits of mitigation.” Such improvisations have become second nature. As a consolation, we instead recorded an adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as a radio play, which airs on KNBA 90.3 FM on Halloween night. Anchorage Community Theatre (ACT) was supposed to be closing Agatha Christie’s The Hollow by this weekend, but rising COVID-19 numbers convinced the cast and crew (including myself) to postpone. One stage in Anchorage that is dark for Halloween is the one that, ironically, stayed busy through the COVID-19 shutdown.

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