One of the saddest non-health-related fallouts of the coronavirus situation is our inability to gather with friends and family and to be together in large community groups. For those of us who work and perform in arts and theatre, this new era of self-isolation can be devastating on many levels—mentally, financially, socially, and so on.
I love television and musical theatre with equal passion, but for very different reasons. I even got degrees in both of these things. While my classmates in my theatre MA program were already deeply knowledgeable about theatrical canon and history from their undergrad classes, I was comparing Medea to Karen Walker and using Seinfeld and Green Acres to talk about Ionesco’s absurdist classic The Bald Soprano.