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Alvin Ailey Announces

December Season

Alvin Ailey American Dance

Theater is the latest company to

move ahead with new work while

performing arts spaces remain

almost completely shut down in

New York.

The troupe’s monthlong De-

cember season will include a

world premiere from Jamar

Roberts, Ailey’s choreographer

in residence, and the debut of a

collaborative response to Alvin

Ailey’s “Revelations” by

Matthew Rushing, Clifton Brown

and Yusha-Marie Sorzano.

“We’re deciding to look at the

possibilities rather than focus on

what we can’t do,” Robert Battle,

the company’s artistic director,

said in an interview.

Roberts’s new “A Jam Session

for Troubling Times” was created

as a contribution to this year’s

Charlie Parker centennial and

will feature Parker’s music. Jazz

is a source of inspiration for

Roberts, who has used it for

earlier dances, including last

year’s “Ode.”

Duke Ellington will also be the

focus of a program. During his

career, Ailey choreographed

more than a dozen dances to

Ellington’s music. Among the

dances that will be highlighted is

“Pas de Duke,” which was re-

cently performed for the camera

by Jacqueline Green and Yannick

Lebrun at the top of the Wool-

worth Building.

To celebrate the 60th anniver-

sary of “Revelations,” the compa-

ny’s signature work, the troupe is

preparing a special digital pre-

sentation for opening night, Dec.

2, which will include commen-

tary and analysis by Ailey ex-

perts and former dancers. “Tes-

tament,” the new dance by Rush-

ing, Brown and Sorzano, will

weave together their personal

experiences with “Revelations,”

input from current dancers and

an original score by Damien

Sneed. Above, a scene from a

2018 performance of “Revela-

tions.”

PETER LIBBEY

Rapper Tory Lanez

Charged in Shooting

Months after the rapper Megan

Thee Stallion said she had been

shot in the feet by a fellow musi-

cian in the Hollywood Hills, the

rapper Tory Lanez (below) has

been charged with the crime, the

Los Angeles District Attorney’s

Office said on Thursday.

Lanez, a Canadian artist

whose real name is Daystar

Peterson, faces one count of

assault with a semiautomatic

handgun and one count of carry-

ing a loaded, unregistered fire-

arm in a vehicle. He would face

up to 22 years and eight months

in prison if convicted, the district

attorney said.

Lanez, 28, was initially ar-

rested on July 12 and charged

with concealing a firearm in the

vehicle.

In the days and weeks that

followed, the matter became the

subject of intense speculation,

gossip and finger-pointing after

Megan Thee Stallion, 25, born

Megan Pete, said via Instagram

on July 15 that she had “suffered

gunshot wounds, as a result of a

crime that was committed

against me and done with the

intention to physically harm me.”

She did not name her assail-

ant, and the police declined to

say that shots had been fired,

confirming only that one person

had been taken to a hospital to

receive medical treatment for a

foot injury.

In August, Megan Thee Stal-

lion again used Instagram to

provide further details, claiming

that Lanez had been responsible.

She said she had sought to pro-

tect him from the police that

night by not telling them she had

been shot, but that the spread of

misinformation online, as well as

misleading accounts from

Lanez’s team, had forced her to

come forward.

“Tory shot me,” Megan Thee

Stallion said in a livestream to

her millions of followers. “You

shot me and you got your publi-

cist and your people going to

these blogs lying.”

“I didn’t tell the police nothing

because I didn’t want us to get in

no more trouble,” she added.

“You want me to tell the law that

we got a gun in the car so that

they can shoot all of us up?”

Lanez did not comment pub-

licly on the accusation, but re-

leased an album, “Daystar,” last

month in which he appeared to

repeatedly question her account.

The album, which drew heavy

backlash from listeners who

called it exploitative, debuted at

No. 10 on the Billboard chart.

Representatives for Lanez did

not immediately respond Thurs-

day to a request for comment.

Prosecutors now say that

Lanez and a “female friend,”

identified in the complaint only

as Megan P., were riding in a

sport-utility vehicle in the Holly-

wood Hills during the early

morning hours when they began

arguing. “The victim exited the

vehicle and Peterson is accused

of shooting several times at her

feet and wounding her,” the dis-

trict attorney’s office said in its

news release.

Lanez’s arraignment is sched-

uled for Oct. 13.

JOE COSCARELLI

Arts, Briefly

NEWS FROM THE CULTURAL WORLD

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Broadway is going to remain closed at least
through next May 30, which is 444 days af-
ter all 41 theaters went dark as part of New
York’s effort to slow the spread of the co-
ronavirus.
On Friday, the Broadway League, a trade
organization representing producers and
theater owners, announced that it was sus-
pending all ticket sales through that date.
But when will Broadway actually re-
open?
“That’s the question of the hour and the
day and the month and the year, because we
truly don’t know,” Charlotte St. Martin, the
League’s president, said in an interview on
Friday. “Certainly a lot of shows are making
their plans, and some think we will open in
the summer, and I hope they are right. But I
think people’s bets are the fall of next year.”
A League statement suggested that
producers imagine a staggered reopening,
rather than all theaters opening at once.
“Dates for each returning and new Broad-
way show will be announced as individual
productions determine the performance
schedules for their respective shows,” the
statement explained. St. Martin said the re-
opening dates will be determined by
producers working with theater owners.
Soon after the statement was released,
“MJ,” a Michael Jackson biomusical that
had planned to open this summer and then
next spring, announced that performances
would now begin next September.
And the revival of “The Music Man,” star-
ring Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster,
which was initially scheduled to open next
week, then on May 20, will now begin per-
formances on Dec. 20, 2021, and open on
Feb. 10, 2022. Several other shows that had
rescheduled opening nights for next spring
will now need to go back to the drawing
board, including the new play “The Min-
utes” and revivals of “American Buffalo”
and “Take Me Out.”
With no clear path to reopening, the shut-
down is costing huge amounts of money, not
only to producers and performers, but also
to backstage workers, Times Square restau-
rants, and the city itself in the form of lost
tax revenue. The shutdown is also endan-
gering the careers of artists, and the
prospects of artistic works, as the nation’s
premiere stages are stilled indefinitely.
All Broadway theaters closed on March
12 as part of an effort to slow the spread of
the coronavirus by limiting large gather-
ings; at the time there were 31 shows run-
ning, including eight still in previews, and
another eight were in rehearsals getting
ready to start performances. The Broadway
League at first closed theaters through
April 12; it has repeatedly extended the can-

cellations, most recently through Jan. 3.

“There would be nothing better for every-

one than if we had a date certain, but there

isn’t one — this is a global pandemic,” St.

Martin said. “Do you think I like putting out

these statements four times? No! And God,

I hope we only have to do it one more time.

But we don’t know.”

Broadway is not only the pinnacle — and

best-paying workplace — of the American

theatrical landscape, but it is also big busi-

ness, or at least it was. In 2019, the indus-

try’s theaters drew 14.6 million theatergo-

ers and sold $1.8 billion worth of tickets.

This year, the grosses are likely to be a tiny

fraction of that amount, since theaters were

only open for 10 weeks at a time of year

when attendance is usually soft.

Although television and film production

are resuming, the performing arts remain

almost completely shut down, at least at the

professional level, in New York and

throughout much of the nation.

The Metropolitan Opera announced last

month that it would remain dark until next

September. And even before that announce-

ment, some theaters had already made the

same decision: Trinity Rep in Providence

said it would delay in-person productions

until next fall.

St. Martin said it is not realistic to expect

that Broadway will wait for everyone to be

vaccinated before reopening, given public

skepticism about vaccines.

Instead, she said, “there has to be a medi-

cal or scientific change. We’re hoping for

complete reliability of rapid testing, com-

bined with other medical or scientific en-

hancements for the audience and the cast

and crew. Many products are being tested

which are promising, and a combination of

those would bring us back. And yes, we’d

love a vaccine.”

St. Martin said that, however long it takes

to reopen, she is confident that Broadway

will ultimately bounce back.

“We survived the Great Depression and

many other crises,” she said. “I just don’t

think we live in a country or a world that

wants to be without theater.”

Broadway to Stay Dark

At Least Through May

‘The Music Man’ and others

must plan new opening dates.

By MICHAEL PAULSON

“The Phantom of the Opera” must wait to resume its run.

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informally

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