Are masks still required at Kennedy center shows now?
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Anonymous
Why? While I don't like the vax/mask rules, they are a private business and can set the terms they want. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
They're desperate for money. They've been calling/emailing/texting like crazy asking for donations. Never had it be that bad before. |
Anonymous
Yep. If the rest of dc is mainly open, they’re gonna have to follow suit or lose money. Everyone else has moved on with covid and are living with it. They have to do the same or lose money. |
Anonymous
| I went to a play at a theatre in Frederick last Saturday and actors had no masks but audience was required to mask. Doesn't really make sense to me. |
Anonymous
| According to their website, the Kennedy Center is STILL requiring masks in September of 2022. Ridiculous. |
Anonymous
Good |
Anonymous
WTF. Only in DC. |
Anonymous
| Yes, we went 2 weeks ago. Masks but no vax cards. |
Anonymous
IIRC, they dropped the vax requirement back in May or so. |
Anonymous
| Stupid rules |
Anonymous
That's insane. |
Anonymous
| National Theater is as well. Probably some kind of agreement with the actors. In Six, the wives didn’t wear masks but the 4 piece band in stage did. But you could bring in drinks and eat during the show with the mask off so it’s all a bit silly now. |
Anonymous
To all the "we don't want to mask at live theater any more" posters: As the house manager for one play we saw recently said, when she came out (masked) to thank the audience: "WE mask so the actors don't have to." We go to theater a lot. And my young adult DC is an actor doing theater and has many friends in professional theater. Covid is still very real, and if even one performer in a cast tests positive, it can shut down a whole production temporarily. Before anyone leaps in to say, "But, understudies! This is what understudies are for!" you need to know that understudies are absolutely not a thing in every production everywhere, and even if there ARE understudies, Covid in the cast can mess with that system too. (We were lucky to see a play at Shakespeare Theater Co. in DC when just one cast member was out with a positive test; a few weeks later, the final shows were all canceled due to Covid spreading in the ranks of the cast.) So productions are still leery of audiences who aren't masked. Some productions are trying to function as "bubbles" as much as possible, asking actors in particular to limit contacts etc. -- not perfectly achievable, since actors do have this thing called families -- but believe me, in the theater community they're still extremely concerned because of how fast Covid spreads and how it can knock out a production entirely. Yes, even now. Yes, even with vaccines. If we want to see actors who are performing without masks, audiences should do them the great courtesy of masking. Yeah, we're sitting more than six feet from them but there are hundreds of us in their airspace, every show, show after show. Knowing DCUM, I'm sure someone will argue that at some point theaters can be so scared. Well, theaters and casts and crews by definition are groups, and working in very close proximity physically. If they're trying to stay uninfected off stage so they can perform for us on stage with less worry, the least we can do is mask. We mask so the actors don't have to. I dont' mind masking indefinitely. |
Anonymous
| Yes |