Revisiting Bay Area theater’s first pandemic interviews one year later
Early pandemic interviewing felt like asking someone to peer off a cliff into an abyss and tell me what they saw.
Lily Janiak March 16, 2021Updated: March 16, 2021, 8:11 pm
The Frost Amphitheater begins to fill up for a Kali Uchis and Jorja Smith concert at Stanford. Photo: Santiago Mejia, The Chronicle 2019
When I interviewed theater artists and producers in late February and early March of last year, I often felt as if I was asking someone to peer off a cliff into an abyss and tell me what they saw.
A year later, I wondered if the scene still looked like an abyss, so I asked five of my early pandemic interviewees to revisit those conversations with me, that we might measure the distance between then, now and what’s to come.