Theater uses its creativity to defy pandemic and stage shows
NEW YORK (AP) ??" There's theater on Broadway. You just have to adjust your sights. More than a hundred blocks north of Manhattan's shuttered theater district but on that same famed thoroughfare, an actor recently read his lines from a huge stage. But there was no applause. Instead, all that was heard was a strange command for the theater: "And cut!"Tony Award-winner Jefferson Mays was performing multiple roles for a high-tech "A Christmas Carol" that was being filmed for streaming this month...
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