Last April, theater-lovers Mary Ann Hubbard and Jan Carpman got an idea they thought might help people who miss participating in and seeing live theater.
Little did they know, in less than a year, their brainchild would be sprouting into a non-profit theater company with the potential to outlive the pandemic.
Harvard-bound Taunton High School senior Aidan Scully is about to take his love of theater to the next level. On Friday, he will have a play of his produced professionally for the first time ever.
The most unique part? It'll be over video meeting platform Zoom.
The New York Times Magazine article, “Covid Closed Theaters. But It Also Made Them Accessible,” by Esme Weijun Wang, April 06, 2021, discusses the myriad advantages of online theater. We disagree with her conclusion that online theater “. . . will very likely be lost when the world reopens. . .” Just look at PlayZoomers!