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Plays broadcast into movie theaters, and will be 3-D
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HowardBHaas
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July 16, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Following opera, sporting events and concerts, now a company is bringing theatre to movie theaters.
Theater lovers rejoice. The world’s best stage productions are on their way to a movie house near you. Thanks to the digital revolution, everything from London’s acclaimed National Theater production of Racine’s masterwork “Phèdre,” starring Helen Mirren, to the off-Broadway cult favorite “Forever Plaid,” not to mention upcoming top Broadway musicals, are beaming into multiplexes from Reykjavik to Los Angeles —– in high-definition and eventually 3-D, to boot.
It’s high-tech culture for the low price of a movie matinee and a box of popcorn. And in a sure sign that regional thespians aren’t worried about the arrival of their digital counterparts, the premier regional theater in the United States, Minneapolis’s Guthrie Theater, will actually screen a delayed transmission of “Phèdre” July 8 and 9 in one of its main stages.
Read the full story in the Christian Science Monitor.
Comments (2)
This is happening at my local multiplex, which started the NCM program in late 2008 with the Met opera series and NCM Fathom events. After they get the 3-D next weekend with the G-Force movie, they might show a play or concert in 3-D, which will be huge.
Interesting, indeed!
Just this past Christmas season, one movie theatre showed a movie recording of the 1939 version of the “Nutcracker Suite” Ballet. Didn’t go, due to awful weather, but it sure looked fabulous. Would’ve loved to see that.