Can online shows help save the theater industry?

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The success of a British production of 'The Tempest' — performed on video conferencing app Zoom — proves that, despite pandemic restrictions, there is still an appetite for theater and a willingness to try something new, the show's chief executive says.

But David Loumgair, creative director of Common, an organization dedicated to greater socio-economic diversity in the arts, doubts that merely transferring the usual programming -- designed to appeal to city-dwelling, educated and monied theater-goers, over 90% of whom are white -- from stage to screen will be enough to attract audiences with different backgrounds, interests and sensibilities."To what degree is this work reaching audiences?" he said over the phone.

"In most of the theater work we've seen, the digital element is just about distribution and live-streaming," he said.

"As a sector we're just trying to just make sure we can survive the next three months, and as soon as you truncate your thinking to that particular point of time, everything else just goes out the window," he said."There's a danger that all the progress -- making more accessible, providing more entry points into the industry, giving people a sense that things are more open and representative -- could be put on the back burner because we're in a state of emergency.

 

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That Tempest was great fun to attend / participate in. I am keeping a site listing that show and more digital theater, most of it free, here :

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