Chronicling our pandemic times with humor, heart, and a sense of community in ‘Plays for the Plague Year’ at NYC's Joe’s Pub

DC Theater Arts: With the COVID-19 closure of theaters on March 12, 2020, playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, a Pulitzer Prize winner and The Public Theater’s Writer-in-Residence, decided to put the time in lockdown to good use by writing a play a day. Originally scheduled to open at Joe’s Pub at The Public in November 2022, her anthology of Plays for the Plague Year was, ironically, shut down by the pandemic when she tested positive for the virus.