Hacker News with Generative AI: Theater

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 25 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 40 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 71 days ago | 41 comments