Theatermakers Guide to Living With Loss

thriveglobal.com: We are a community whose motto is “the show must go on,” but eighty-five percent of the five million Americans working in the arts and culture sector are currently unemployed. In March 2020, The Broadway League sent an email to members asking them to use the social media message #OnlyIntermission; six months later, the request was to use #SOS. The Broadway and live entertainment industry as we knew it is GONE. The uncertainty of what the performing arts will look like when it returns, and if they still have a place in it, has left millions of us experiencing grief over multiple losses, including the types called ambiguous loss and disenfranchised grief.