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Ten Playwrights Are Working On A Coronavirus Serial For YouTube. Does It Qualify As Theater?

THEATRE Posted: April 24, 2020 10:02 am

Turns out not even the people involved agree on the answer to that. Absolutely not, says Ryan Rilette, artistic director of metro DC’s Round House (the theater behind the project): “You can’t actually capture the quality of being with a group of people, breathing the same air, listening to a story together.” But playwright Alexandra Petri (yes, the Washington Post columnist), who wrote the first episode, says that “[it’s] fundamentally a 10-minute play, but it happens to be set inside your computer.” – The New York Times

THEATRE Published: 04.23.20

Read the story in New York Times Published: 04.23.20

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