Why Theatre Will Recover from COVID-19 Think theatre might struggle to recover from COVID-19? It's made quite a few comebacks before. We investigate when theatres went dark in the past, and what – or who – turned the lights back on Article by Eliza Gearty | 16 Mar 2021 Last October, the journalist Ravi Ghosh put forward a daunting query in Ghosh isn’t the only person who has considered this question. Andrew Lloyd Webber made headlines when he said that he didn’t think commercial theatre would survive the pandemic. On top of concerns over the economic destruction wreaked by COVID-19, and its implications for the performing arts, others have wondered if theatre will simply have the same appeal in a post-pandemic world. “When will we