he last Broadway show I saw was on March 8, 2020, a revival of directed by the Belgian stage auteur Ivo van Hove. The musical was the talk of the season, and Van Hove’s production was heavy on video. (Didn’t he know that video would soon be all we had?) Even then, a trip to the theater felt dicey. Was it safe to take the A train to Midtown? Was that someone coughing a few rows back? Should we had tested positive for coronavirus, Broadway, unthinkably, shut down—an unprecedented step that, producers hoped, would last only until May.
Michael Schulman
Mar 09, 2021
3 minutes
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