Smoke from Canadian wildfires has steep New York City since Tuesday .
The air quality inNew YorkCity is so bad thatJodie Comercouldn’t go on with her Broadway show.
TheKilling Evealum is starring inPrima Facie, a one-woman play at the Golden Theatre in Times Square.
She’s earningrave reviewsfor her performance as a criminal defense lawyer reckoning with sexual assault.
However, she stopped a matinee performance Wednesday after finding it difficult to breathe amid the wildfire smoke engulfing New York City and much of the Northeast.
Varietyreported that Jodie stopped her production after just 10 minutes, telling the audience she couldn’t breathe, before being ushered offstage by a stage manager.
A representative for the production told BuzzFeed in a statement that the performance quickly began again from the top with Jodie’s understudy, Dani Arlington, stepping in.
Since Tuesday, smoke from wildfires in Canada has spread across parts of that country and the United States.The New York Timesreported that air alerts have been raised from Minnesota to Massachusetts.
