The arts will not survive without extended unemployment benefits, and all of us should care

"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."