APPLAUSE
Right This Way
Right This Way
A History of the Audience
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When you sit down at a play, movie, or concert-or even in front of the TV or scrollinl on your-you are taking part in one of the oldest and most mysterious forms of human behavior. Being part of an audience is an age-old experience that we all crave that has evolved from amphitheaters to screens. Right This Way is a pop history of audiences through the ages.Playbill editor Robert Viagas unfolds the unique aspects of what he calls "audiencing" with stories from the age of the Greeks to the world of Zoom. He walks through the different types of audiences and the history of their responses, what science has to say about how our brains respond to what they see and the reactions of the people around them, and why, during COVID-19, people risked a deadly virus to be part of a crowd. Right This Way explores what the audience experience brings us and how it may evolve in the 21st century.
By Robert Viagas
Imprint: APPLAUSE
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Format: HARDBACK
Pages: 256
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Author Bio
Robert Viagas is editor-in-chief of Encore Monthly (Encoremonthly.com), the national theatre magazine. He has more than thirty-five years' experience as an author, journalist, lecturer, podcaster, and professor. He has spent much of his career working on Broadway with Playbill Inc., the iconic theatre program company, including as the founding editor of Playbill.com and the Playbill Broadway Yearbook series. His nineteen books on the performing arts include: On the Line: The Creation of A Chorus Line, The Amazing Story of The Fantasticks, and Good Morning, Olive: Haunted Theatres of Broadway and Beyong. Viagas served on the nominating committee for Broadway's Tony Awards.