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Broadway Extends Shutdown to June Due to Coronavirus

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By Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and Media With the coronavirus grinding urban life to a halt, Broadway has extended its shutdown.

Shows will now be suspended through June 7, 2020. Previously, the Broadway League said that performances would resume during the week of April 13, 2020.

That’s an impossibility given that New York remains the epicenter of the pandemic. Even though the League has extended the shut down, many Broadway insiders don’t expect performances to resume until July at the earliest, with some predicting that theaters will stay dark into September.

The extended closure will likely mean that more shows that were eyeing limited runs will instead opt not to open at all, a fate that has already befallen the likes of

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