"The Broadway League’s most recent announcement shuttering all theatrical work until at least the beginning of next year is both the right call and a ticking time-bomb for the hundreds of thousands of folks who work in the arts.
Without extended unemployment benefits, including the $600/week pandemic unemployment compensation program set to expire this month, one-by-one a generation of theatre professionals will be forced to leave behind the field to which they’ve dedicated their lives.
Some before they even got started."