Great Performances: The Arts Interrupted
Premieres Friday, May 14 at 9 p.m. on PBS, pbs.org/gperf and the PBS Video app
How have the arts been managing during the COVID-19 pandemic? Arts organizations across America share their survival stories, along with examples of innovative performances, from COVID-19 inspired theater to site-specific operas. Learn how the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement have impacted America’s emerging artists.
#PBSForTheArts is a multiplatform campaign that celebrates the resiliency of the arts in America during the COVID-19 pandemic shutdown and reopening, and features new performing arts content filmed within the constraints of the pandemic. The collection of #PBSForTheArts programs will be available for broadcast on PBS and streaming on pbs.org/arts and the PBS Video app. Curated conversation and digital shorts will be available on PBS social media platforms using #PBSForTheArts.
Featuring interviews with:
- Jordana Leigh, Senior Director of Artistic Programming, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
- Simone Eccleston, Director of Hip Hop Culture and Contemporary Music, Kennedy Center
- Kamilah Forbes, Executive Producer, Apollo Theater
- Ralph Remington, Director, City of San Francisco Arts Commission
- Danny Burstein, Tony-nominated actor, “Moulin Rouge”
- Alejandra Duque Cifuentes, Executive Director, Dance/NYC
- Somi, Composer & Musician
- Anne Huang, Executive Director, World Arts West
- Stanlyn Brevé, Director of National Programs, National Performance Network
Featuring performances from:
- “Moulin Rouge” (Broadway)
- “West Side Story” (Broadway)
- Ballet X (Philadelphia)
- Misty Copeland (Kennedy Center)
- Somi with Alte Big Band (Atlanta)
- Yo-Yo Ma (Massachusetts)
Produced and directed by Akisa Omulepu, Great Performances: The Arts Interrupted is a production of THIRTEEN Productions LLC. Great Performances is produced by THIRTEEN Productions LLC for WNET. Bill O’Donnell is Series Producer and David Horn is Executive Producer.
Major funding for Great Performances: The Arts Interrupted is provided by The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation, the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Arts Fund, the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust, Jody and John Arnhold, The Philip and Janice Levin Foundation, the Kate W. Cassidy Foundation, the Thea Petschek Iervolino Foundation, Rosalind P. Walter, The Starr Foundation, the Seton Melvin Charitable Trust, the Estate of Worthington Mayo-Smith, Ellen and James S. Marcus and PBS
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