As Theaters Stare Down Uncertainty, Ars Nova Buys Itself Time

The New York Times: In the hours after Broadway shut down for 30 days to slow the spread of the coronavirus, Off Broadway closures followed in a wave — show upon show postponed or suspended or prematurely ended.

Ars Nova was one of those companies, going dark the same night that Broadway did, and for the same length of time. On March 12, after just two previews, it paused production of the music-theater piece on its Greenwich Village stage, Heather Christian’s “Oratorio for Living Things,” and halted all activity at its headquarters in Hell’s Kitchen, an incubator for emerging artists and their work.