When the Lights Go Off on Broadway
No financial crash, no vocal disease silencing every working actor, and no amount of water flooding the city allow Broadway theatres to cease activities on their own. These houses won’t be covered by insurance if they do so without a government sanction. Such reality is why several members of the Broadway community repeatedly pleaded with New York’s governor and the Broadway league to shut down Broadway, given the situation that our world has been immersed in since the beginning of 2020.
