The Future of Theater, from The Harvard Magazine
Rody Vera has made it part of his mission to be on the lookout for noteworthy articles about theater and to share it with his colleagues. The following article, while it talks of American theater in particular, can actually be describing the present state of Philippine theater as well. Just substitute the commercial theater companies for Broadway and the subsidized and school-based companies for the non-profits, and the points still ring true. The complete article can be found here: http://harvardmagazine.com/2012/01/the-future-of-theater Some excerpts: The Future of Theater In a digital era, is the play still the thing? Photograph by Stu Rosner . Robert Brustein onstage at the Loeb Drama Center, home of the American Repertory Theater, which he founded in 1979 "Th...