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Know it When I See it
How to Define Theater in the Digital Era? I›ll Theatre as an Art Form Seems to Have a Problematic Future
by Charles McNulty Since the advent of motion pictures, the question of what distinguishes the stage from the screen has been a bone of contention among a small subset of intellectuals. The issue may seem academic, but
savvier theater practitioners have recognized that it›s really a matter of survival. The theater has long felt cinema breathing down its neck. Susan Sontag, taking up the matter in a 1966 essay, «Theatre and Film,» declared that,
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