Socially distanced, remote, or filmed for streaming, live theatre finds ways to carry on in defiance of coronavirus shutdown

There’s theatre on Broadway. You just have to adjust your sights.More than a hundred blocks north of Manhattan’s shuttered theatre 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 theatre: “And cut!”Tony Award winner Jefferson Mays was performing multiple roles for a hi-tech A Christmas Carol that was being filmed for streaming this month at the empty 3,000-seat…

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