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Bar Brawls and Blood Orgies: Meet the Visionary Turning NYC's Theatre Scene on Its Head

  • sharpmagazinemeAuthor: sharpmagazineme Publish date: Wednesday، 07 October 2020
Bar Brawls and Blood Orgies: Meet the Visionary Turning NYC's Theatre Scene on Its Head
There are certain givens one expects from American theatre. Call them Stations of the Stage: the respectful stillness of the audience, monologues, counterpoint duets, standing ovations (or not). Randy Weiner hates them all. So the playwright and producer has spent the last five years recreating the genre, partly by destroying it. He’s the man responsible for making immersive theatre — a fantastical, interactive take on the idiom — a fast-spreading New York City epidemic. At