{"id":30365,"date":"2025-06-24T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=30365"},"modified":"2025-06-24T09:28:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T09:28:36","slug":"on-broadway-a-i-and-high-tech-storytelling-is-having-a-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=30365","title":{"rendered":"On Broadway, A.I. and High-Tech Storytelling Is Having a Moment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sarah Snook<\/a> screen-sharing selfies from a face-filtering phone app. Nicole Scherzinger<\/a> getting her close-up via movie cameras. George Clooney<\/a> making onstage television. Robert Downey Jr.<\/a> superseded by a digital puppet.<\/p>\n

High-tech storytelling is surging on Broadway. Over the last year, stages have been brimming with large-scale and high-resolution videos, deployed not simply for scenery but also as an integrated narrative tool. It is all made possible by the growing availability, affordability and stability of the cameras, computers, projectors and surfaces that are utilized as part of today\u2019s stage sets.<\/p>\n

The phenomenon, which is presumably here to stay, also reflects the ubiquity of digital devices in contemporary life. In an era when we are rarely separated from our smartphones or smartwatches, and video greets us in our cars and supermarkets, the latest technology is transforming stagecraft and storytelling.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Robert Downey Jr. in \u201cMcNeal.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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\u201cThe majority of Americans\u2019 waking, conscious moments are looking at screens,\u201d said the designer Jake Barton, who last fall worked on \u201cMcNeal,\u201d a play that starred Downey as a novelist whose entanglement with generative artificial intelligence is woven into the scenic design. \u201cOn one level,\u201d Barton said, \u201cthis is just theater naturally evolving.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Just two weeks ago, the Tony Awards gave the coveted best musical prize to \u201cMaybe Happy Ending<\/a>,\u201d in which actors playing robots share a stage at times with massive videos depicting their digital memories. The best musical revival Tony went to \u201cSunset Boulevard,\u201d where performers holding camera rigs film part of the action for transmission to a giant screen that swivels into the audience\u2019s view. And the best play revival honor went to \u201cEureka Day,\u201d which featured a reliably gut-busting scene<\/a> in which chat comments posted during a school board meeting were projected above the cast.<\/p>\n

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Sarah Snook screen-sharing selfies from a face-filtering phone app. Nicole Scherzinger getting her close-up via movie cameras. George Clooney making onstage television. Robert Downey Jr. superseded by a digital puppet.High-tech storytelling is surging on Broadway. Over the last year, stages have been brimming with large-scale and high-resolution videos, deployed not simply for scenery but also as an integrated narrative tool. It is all made possible by the growing availability, affordability and stability of the cameras, computers, projectors and surfaces that are utilized as part of today\u2019s stage sets.The phenomenon, which is presumably here to stay, also reflects the ubiquity of digital devices in contemporary life. In an era when we are rarely separated from our smartphones or smartwatches, and video greets us in our cars and supermarkets, the latest technology is transforming stagecraft and storytelling.Robert Downey Jr. in \u201cMcNeal.\u201d\u201cThe majority of Americans\u2019 waking, conscious moments are looking at screens,\u201d said the designer Jake Barton, who last fall worked on \u201cMcNeal,\u201d a play that starred Downey as a novelist whose entanglement with generative artificial intelligence is woven into the scenic design. \u201cOn one level,\u201d Barton said, \u201cthis is just theater naturally evolving.\u201dJust two weeks ago, the Tony Awards gave the coveted best musical prize to \u201cMaybe Happy Ending,\u201d in which actors playing robots share a stage at times with massive videos depicting their digital memories. The best musical revival Tony went to \u201cSunset Boulevard,\u201d where performers holding camera rigs film part of the action for transmission to a giant screen that swivels into the audience\u2019s view. And the best play revival honor went to \u201cEureka Day,\u201d which featured a reliably gut-busting scene in which chat comments posted during a school board meeting were projected above the cast.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30367,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30368,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30365\/revisions\/30368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}