It is ongoing throughout the world as you read this and shows no hurry to be gone from our sheltered lives.
Ironically, its power to destroy had no effect on theatrical items like tutus, musical instruments, auditoriums no, it only hurt people.
The world had turned, and the effects were still being felt when, last March, we all were besieged by a more insidious destructive power – the coronavirus. Theaters were wrecked, props lost, costumes stank from mildew, schedules hastily shuffled or postponed, jobs lost, budgets thrown out of whack. When Hurricane Harvey smashed into Houston in August 2017, its destruction to our theater community was horribly awesome.