Techne: Theater and the Internet

HowlRound: The internet is just shy of two decades old, give or take, but it only achieved greater than 50 percent adoption among adults in the United States about a dozen years ago. (Kids lagged behind for a while, but they passed their parents several years back.) That means there are young people currently applying to colleges right now who have never lived in a world without the internet, which entered the zeitgeist when they were just beginning to form long-term memories.
Most of them—and this may go without saying—do not yet buy theater tickets. This is in large part, of course, because of their age, but when they get older… will they?