Posted: 7/8/20 at 7:47am
This piece by Jesse Green better articulates the lack of leadership in the Broadway world than I did a few weeks ago, and I agree with it 1000%:
Through it all, the institutions that might have been expected to promote a larger vision of the importance of theater — the American Theater Wing, the Broadway League, the League of Off Broadway Theaters and Producers, even the unions — have seemed largely complacent and uncoordinated.
For months I’ve been waiting for industry groups to galvanize themselves into meaningful action, as they did in Britain — and as Black theater artists have proved can be done here, too. Instead, coronavirus has rendered theater leaders voiceless and useless. Even small accommodations to the moment seem beyond their abilities. Plans for ticket refunds and the eventual resumption of performances have been ineptly tossed and fumbled.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/theater/theater-bailout-britain.html
