What Will The Future Of Theater Look Like? 'Our Artists Are Going To Lead Us'
It's hard to predict exactly how theater will come back after the pandemic, but here are a couple guesses: Fewer crowds, more collective imagination, and a focus on racial and environmental justice.
Oskar Eustis, artistic director of The Public Theater in New York, knows firsthand about the coronavirus. Eustis was hospitalized with COVID on March 10, and by the time he was released five days later, everything was shut down. "I came out into a world that had no theater, and it's a different world," he says.
Eustis has recovered, but the Public, like theaters all around the world, is in critical condition. After the theater shut down on March 12 management tried to keep artists and actors on salary for a month, but "by the end of April, we had to end all those contracts," Eustis says. By July, he had to furlough much of his
