Hacker News with Generative AI: Theater

Miami Beach mayor backs down from threatening theater over 'No Other Land' (latimes.com)
A series of showings of the documentary “No Other Land” at a single-screen art-house theater in Miami Beach has become a flash point of controversy.
Miami, Documentary Films, Censorship, Theater, Politics
10 points by like_any_other 13 days ago | 0 comments
Parnassus plays (wikipedia.org)
The Parnassus plays are three satiric comedies, or full-length academic dramas, each divided into five acts.
Comedy, Literature, Theater
40 points by Caiero 25 days ago | 2 comments
Pompey's Greatest Show on Earth (historytoday.com)
In the autumn of 55 BC Pompey the Great, one of the most powerful generals of the Late Roman Republic, opened his brand new theatre.
Ancient Rome, History, Theater, Military History
7 points by diodorus 27 days ago | 2 comments
Six, and the art of staying in the game (ashore.io)
In the summer of 2017, I squeezed into a packed hotel conference room at the Edinburgh Fringe to watch the opening of a new musical (on my now wife's brother's recommendation). Crammed alongside 90 others: most of whom were friends of the cast, the atmosphere felt more like a night at the darts than a theatre performance.
Theater, Music
17 points by tollandlebas 42 days ago | 8 comments
We're All Bozos on This Bus: Eliza and the Firesign Theater (sites.google.com)
20241223: We're all Bozos on this Bus: ELIZA and The Firesign Theater (including a nod to ElizaGen.org!)
Comedy, History, Artificial Intelligence, Music, Theater
18 points by abrax3141 100 days ago | 5 comments
A woman appeared on the English stage on this day in 1660 (smithsonianmag.com)
The audience at the King’s Company production of Othello on December 8, 1660, heard an unusual prologue before the play began. “The Woman playes to day, mistake me not,” one of the actors read aloud. “No Man in Gown, or Page in Petty-Coat; / A Woman to my knowledge ….”
Theater, History, England
63 points by pepys 115 days ago | 13 comments
Tickets Are for Remembering (publicbooks.org)
Playbills, programs, cast-change inserts, tickets: these objects once physically accompanied the theater’s visual and verbal delights.
Theater, History, Memory, Ephemera
44 points by Thevet 146 days ago | 41 comments