July 13, 2024: Theatre Yesterday and Today Forty-seven years ago tonight, on July 13, 1977 at exactly 9:29 p.m., New York City suffered an electrical blackout that lasted into afternoon the following day. Plunged into darkness, my personal experience of this extraordinary night reveal more about me as an avid theatregoer than I might care to admit spent, but here goes anyway. On a nasty hot and muggy summer nig…
