Today was the first full day of showing our virtual reality theater experience to the public – the very first day’s performances of a new kind of live theater. And sure enough, for one of today’s performances the New York Times showed up.<\/p>\n
After that performance (which I thought went well, but we will just have to see if the Times agrees), I said to our director that I thought there was an irony here.<\/p>\n
He asked what I meant, so I explained. “Here we are,” I said, “creating a shared experience that is all about being together in the immediate moment. Yet it is only culturally validated when the Press shares it with the world.”<\/p>\n
Our director just laughed. “Ken,” he said, “theater has always been like that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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