'The Comeback Project' scours the globe to figure out how to reopen theaters Peter Marks, The Washington Post March 1, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail Directors Rebecca Aparicio, left, and Sammi Cannold have created "The Comeback Project" to help in the return to live performance.Comeback Project Like thousands of other theater artists across the country, directors Sammi Cannold and Rebecca Aparicio were in the dark about how Broadway and the rest of their industry were going to get back onstage. So in their search for answers, they turned to other nations that have surpassed this country in engineering a return. The result is "The Comeback Project," a series of discussions beginning Thursday with theatermakers and others around the world who have been grappling with reopening performance spaces. To various degrees they have succeeded, partly because they have pursued national strategies in ways the United States has not.