Performing arts in the age of COVID-19
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The performing arts have taken a major blow during the COVID-19 pandemic. Audiences have been encouraged to stay home and not gather indoors. Venues have closed. But intrepid artists all over the world have found a way. The show must go on.
Mojgan Hosseini, a member of the National Orchestra of Iran, plays a qanun on the roof of her home during mandatory self-isolation due to the new coronavirus disease outbreak, in Tehran, Iran, on March 26, 2020.
Mojgan Hosseini, a member of the National Orchestra of Iran, plays a qanun on the roof of her home during mandatory self-isolation due to the new coronavirus disease outbreak, in Tehran, Iran, on March 26, 2020.