A living being before a living audience. The theater is an art form scaled to the human, and stubbornly so, relying on the absolute necessity of physical audience, a large part of why theater is so difficult to monetize. In a world increasingly lost to virtuality and unreality — the theater points to an antidote. A living actor before a living audience. That live performance can synchronize the heartbeats of an audience is no surprise to any of us who ply our trade in the theater.

Source: New York Times December 29, 2017 21:22 UTC