RTWI History Episode 7 - Dr. Martin Louis Johnson on the American theater in a post-COVID world.

This week, Disney CEO Bob Chapek said there is no “going back” to previous state of the American theater after the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Martin Louis Johnson, author of "Main Street Movies: The History of Local Film in the United States," visits to discuss the several scares in the past that caused similar hysteria and where the American theater (and film making) is headed in a post-COVID world.  Get "Main Street Movies" at https://iupress.org/9780253032539/main-street-movies/

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