Pandemic's mental health issues on stage in UNCW's '4:48 Psychosis'
The coronavirus pandemic has been the biggest threat to the ethos of "the show must go on" that live theater has ever seen. Following the 9/11 attacks in 2001, most productions paused only briefly, if at all, and shows have continued despite all kinds of mishaps, from lead actors falling sick mere hours, or even minutes, before curtain, to an impressive, if unexpected, array of technical failures. While Broadway might still be dark, the University of North Carolina Wilmington's Department of Theatre has been staging plays since last September. Outside of some children's theater productions pe...