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.
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.
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.