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How does it feel to be back at the theatre? Performers, employees and audiences at reopened venues describe their experiences as the (socially-distanced) magic returns.

Eye contact is gone. Stilettos are swapped for slippers or sneakers. Songs are passionately delivered to laptop screens.

Since most of the theater world, including Broadway and the West End, shut down in March, the stage has become largely virtual, a space filled with bookcase backdrops and many a monologue.

But cautiously, with six-inch cotton swabs and four-gallon drums of hand sanitizer, theater is creeping back — on the side of a cliff in Cornwall, England; on stoops in Montreal; even, in a few cases, in New York. (And, as widely reported, in the Berkshires, where the first union-approved musical in the country just finished its run.)

The return, the Tony-winning lighting designer Ken Billington said, feels like a rebirth... Keep reading on New York Times