Act I. We may have stopped going to theaters, but theater didn’t stop. In the face of COVID-19, shows went on, and did so in unexpected places: on golf courses, in church courtyards, online. They got small, not in themes but in presentation. But it was summer’s racial injustice and civic responses that insisted on a hard look at the ways systemic racism contorts American theater and thwarts the creativity of theater-makers who are Black, indigenous and other people of color.