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Livestream available via HowlRound TV on Wednesday, April 3 at 1 p.m. PDT.

For a Resilient US Theater, by UCLA researchers Barbara Fuchs and Rhonda Sharrah, is part of Pandemic Preparedness in the Live Performing Arts, a comparative transnational study on the resilience of theatre post-COVID funded by the British Academy. Between April 2023 and January 2024, a team of researchers from the United States of America, United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, and Japan examined the lessons learned from the responses of the live performing arts sector and governments to COVID-19 in the G7 countries. The study’s aim is to support sector preparedness for future crises, whether caused by new pandemics, climate-related disasters, demographic changes, economic pressures or the impacts on the live performing arts of national and international politics.

The US report examines the lessons to be learned from the pandemic, while highlighting longer-term trends exacerbated by the COVID crisis. Its conclusions and recommendations speak to theatremakers and stakeholders across the theatre ecosystem, focusing on key issues of sector-wide strategizing, advocacy, and long-term thinking.

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