Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Livestreaming for Regional Theatre: History and Perspectives
AMT Lab @ CMU: This is a two-part series exploring the benefits of incorporating livestreaming technology into theatres. Part 1 of the report documents a history of livestreaming theatre (involving a timeline and the lifespan of the industry’s biggest players) and a brief analysis of what it means to perform “Live!” and its programming potential. Part 2 includes two case studies that illuminate the resources that allow livestreaming on a large and medium scale.
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Livestreaming, in my opinion, should be reserved for those that cannot attend and should not be considered a way of replacing the live experience. For things like A Very Potter Musical that got all its stardom from the internet and being online it was very beneficial and provided a platform for content to be distributed to fans. While I like live streaming because it makes exclusive events available to those that cannot attend for either time, date, cost, etc. it provides a flexible viewing platform. A previous article viewed it as a replacement for the live experience when coupled with VR and I think that mindset undermines the importance of being truly and 100% in a space experiencing something with others. Livestreaming it both something I love and hate for those exact reasons. While it makes things more accessible which is a plus, it also takes away the need to interact and allows us to recede farther into our technological holes.
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