Helen Lewis
When Will We Want to Be in a Room Full of Strangers Again?
Theater, an industry full of optimists, is reckoning with a heartbreaking realization.
The Atlantic, 2020
What's inside?
When theaters reopen, will audiences return? Theater’s survival is at stake.
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Live theater has become a casualty of the global pandemic. Productions are shut down and when or how they’ll reopen remains unclear. Theater institutions, large and small, fear financial catastrophe. Helen Lewis reports in The Atlantic on the struggles of performers, writers, staff and audiences members. Will theater become less innovative and adventurous? Will ticket buyers be fewer in number and increasingly wealthy? And how will both government-subsidized and commercial sectors of the theater industry fare in the uncertain and challenging future?
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About the Author
A London-based staffer for The Atlantic, Helen Lewis wrote Difficult Women: A History of Feminism in 11 Fights.
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