Learning from the Pandemic to Build a Resilient US Theatre

HowlRound Theatre Commons: What can theatre and the performing arts learn from the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how might those lessons help make the sector more resilient in the future? These are some of the key questions animating the recent Pandemic Preparedness Performing Arts research project, conducted by an international team of scholars and funded by the British Academy. It asks what worked, where, and why, in order to recommend new measures that might pave the way to long-term stability and resilience within the sector.