Originally published on February 10, 2021 9:40 am
As the carnival barkers say, step right up -- and see the amazing Geva Theatre Center schedule change before your very eyes.
This is the COVID-19 reality. There will be no flipping of a switch, so that everything suddenly goes back to “normal.” The emergence of the arts from the coronavirus pandemic will be a cautious, step-by-step process.
As Geva Artistic Director Mark Cuddy says, “We’re trying to step up into the season, every next production a little closer to normal.”
Navigating toward normal is tricky in these uncharted waters. Arts organizations are trying to read constantly shifting winds. And after three changes in direction over these past 11 months of the pandemic, Cuddy qualifies every course change to come with an all-encompassing qualifier: “absolutely, might.”