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Harris spent his Black Theatre Coalition fellowship working on Hangmen on Broadway. Now he's an associate director on Parade.

(© David Gordon) Joe DiPietro: On the Friday, March 13, we met in my New York apartment to go over where we were with Diana creatively and what we wanted to do when we got back. We were at my dining room table for probably four hours — exactly what you're not supposed to do — and then, two days later, I was talking to David Bryan on the phone, and he's coughing. I was like, "Are you OK?" And he's like, "You know, I think I'm just stressed." Kelly Devine: I live alone, and two of my associates live alone. When it started to get really serious in New York City, I got us a house in...

February 22, 2021 Business was booming. Nearly 15 million people had seen Broadway shows during the 2018-19 season. The total box office gross was $1.8 billion. And as the calendar pages flipped to January 2020, every theater had been booked for what was expected to be a prosperous spring, with 21 productions scheduled to open between the first of the year and the late-April Tony Awards cut-off. By Friday, March 13, that was all moot. The curtain had unceremoniously fallen the afternoon before by order of New York State, as cases of the novel coronavirus ravaged the city and rapidly filled ho...

Sharon Wheatley: Come From Away did a Good Morning America 3 performance the morning of the shutdown. We were in a holding room there, and [cast member] Petrina Bromley looked around and she's like "Guys, what is this wall?" And I looked at this black and red wall and thought it was weird. Then we realized it was their Covid war room, where they do their nightly "This is what's happening with Covid" broadcasts. That was our holding room. But the irony was, there was a sink with no soap or hand towels. I went and found a janitor and told him, and he came back without soap, but gave us some t...

Debra Messing: During our first week of rehearsal for Birthday Candles in March, it didn't feel like it was possible for it to come in and wipe everything out. It was just starting to build. It was into the second week, the beginning of that second week, when there was just a very different feeling in the rehearsal room. Lynn Nottage: I got sick that weekend. My daughter was here, and she got very sick, and subsequently, I got it. I don't even know if it was Covid or not, but I had a cough. I didn't want to take any chances if I had Covid and go to the theater and infect the singers. So I di...