Tweet Seats, Year End Round-ups and Other Tidbits
News
Welcome to 2013, dear Minnesota Playlist readers. I’m taking over this weekly round-up of relevant local and national theater news tidbits for at least a couple of months. Pleased to make your acquaintance. Let’s jump right in, shall we?
There’s been a lot of buzz recently about the Guthrie offering designated “Tweet Seats” for four specific performances of The Servant of Two Masters in the balcony area of the McGuire Proscenium Stage. Despite the fact that this is hardly an original move on the Guthrie’s part (Ever been to a live MPR “Wits” show at the Fitzgerald? How about Mixed Blood, where they literally stream tweets including the current production’s hashtag on a TV monitor in the lobby?), the level of vitriol and outrage at the Guthrie’s move has been staggering, at least based on what I’ve gathered from (ironically enough) social media--which is the first place everyone flocks to bitch about social media. Even the reporting itself has tended toward the condescending and snobbish, as in this Huffington Post
