From Lincoln Center to local groups, NYC’s arts community plans gradual comeback from COVID-19 Shant Shahrigian Nearly a year after the COVID-19 pandemic prompted authorities to shut down performances and public gatherings, devastating the city’s world-famous arts sector, the show will go back on. Venues from the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts to a jazz stage in Queens are cautiously planning their first live programming in the brave new world of social distancing and audience size limits. As in the rest of the country, recent weeks have seen the city’s COVID num...