Broadway and Omicron: Cancellations “Out of An Abundance of Caution.” #Stageworthy News

New York Theater: A third of all Broadway shows were canceled on Sunday because members of the company or crew tested positive for Covid, the latest in “a raft of cancellations unlike any in history,” evidence of the surge of infections, including among the vaccinated, “We are seeing a very substantial rise in the number of cases in a way we haven’t seen previously,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said yesterday, the third day of a record number of daily cases in New York – which, as in the first wave of COVID-19 in March 2020, is the American city hardest hit at the outset of this fourth wave. Due to the highly infectious variant Omicron,Anthony Fauci, the nation’s infectious disease expert, predicts that, “it is going to be a tough few weeks to months as we get deeper into the winter.”