Archive for March, 2020
Tuesday, March 31st, 2020
Cancelled Engagements, Unemployment, Layoffs, and Visa Renewals March 31, 2020 By Brian Taylor Goldstein As the tumbleweeds blow through Times Square and we begin to consider the viability of Easter peeps or even kale to supplement the dwindling toilet paper supplies, there is an understandable amount of angst and confusion on many fronts. Not least […]
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Tags: consulates, Coronavirus, lay offs, unemployment, visa extensions
Posted in Artist Management, Employees, Independent Contractors, Law and Disorder: Performing Arts Division, Uncategorized, Visas | Comments Off on A CORONAVIRUS VISA ROUNDUP FOR NON-US ARTISTS
Monday, March 16th, 2020
By Frank Cadenhead. March 16, 2020. This is a major declaration of French opera’s performing artists. This “Cri du Coeur” makes plain that the abrupt cancellation of all opera everywhere in France at Midnight on March 14 leaves both artists and staff without any idea of when this will end and if there will be […]
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Friday, March 13th, 2020
By Brian Taylor Goldstein In short, not much. As you can imagine, this was announced without any details as to how, exactly, this was going to work in terms of screening, implementation, flight schedules, etc. But here what we know so far… Anyone who has been in one of the 26 European countries in the […]
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Tags: acts of god, consulates, Coronavirus, Force majeur, travel, travel ban
Posted in Acts of God, Artist Management, Arts Management, Law and Disorder: Performing Arts Division, Touring, Uncategorized, Visas | Comments Off on What We Know So Far About Trump’s Coronavirus Travel Ban
Friday, March 13th, 2020
I, like most of you, was ingrained with the paradigm that the show must go on no matter what—to the extent that I once performed a whole show the day after I had all four wisdom teeth extracted. However, these are extraordinary times. The live, performing arts will not suffer more than any other economic […]
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Tags: act of god, Force majeur, ticket refunds
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Wednesday, March 4th, 2020
By Brian Taylor Goldstein Let’s all step back and take a breath for moment. As you can imagine, the coronavirus has overrun (dare I say “infected?”) our office with an ever growing stream of cancellations based on force majeur and concerns from venues, presenters, agents, and artists from around the world. As the situation has […]
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Tags: acts of god, cancellation, cancellations, Contracts, Coronavirus, force majeure
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