Impresario Howard Panter Predicts Theater Business Will Boom Again Post-COVID
Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaSir Howard Panter, one of the leading forces in live theater, is so convinced that Broadway, the West End and other stage hubs are poised to come back in a big way post-pandemic, that he’s been using the last few months to restore old theaters and hunt for new ones. As joint CEO and creative director of Trafalgar Entertainment, Panter has straddled several continents in an effort to position the company to capitalize on what he believes will be a theatrical renaissance as soon as people get vaccinated and life eases back to normal.“We’ve never wavered in the notion that we will come back,” Panter told Variety.