Articles tagged with An Oral History of the Broadway Shutdown

The theater community discusses what it would take to reopen the industry, while discussing all the things they miss, in the last section of our oral history project.

Nearly a week after the theater industry shuts down, Covid cases start to rise, and two high-profile shows announce they've closed.

With the industry shut down, theaters scramble to make archival recordings of several productions, while UK-based actors make a mad dash to get back home. And then people started getting sick.

On Thursday, March 12, 2020, Six was scheduled to open. But everyone knew what was coming.

As an usher tests positive for Covid-19, the theater community braces itself for the inevitable.

Actors stopped signing autographs at the stage door and audiences became more wary as March 2020 — and news of the coronavirus hitting New York — rolled in.

The theater community remembers the extraordinary period between January and March 2020, as the industry and world came to a screeching halt.