Japan’s Drive-In Haunted Houses and their Global Inspiration
The horror entertainment company Kowagarasetai produces and creates horror events throughout Japan and recently created a drive-through haunted house in a secret garage.
Tools for Magic-Making: On Green Screens and Magic Shows for the Cyber-Stage
The transition to online virtual performance has led to a reimagining of spectacle on the cyber-stage. In particular, the green screen has become a new landscape for illusion-making and exploring three-dimensionality on the two-dimensional Zoom stage. Magic shows during this pandemic have also continued to explore how to create spectacle on the screen.
Commemorating and Acknowledging the Current Moment on 3Views
How do you memorialize an ephemeral art form when it moves online? In a recent interview with American Theater magazine, Sarah Ruhl and Melissa Crespo considered the role of the 3views criticism website in the current moment. At the beginning of the interview, Sarah Ruhl shares that the website was refocused during the pandemic because the survival of artists and performance houses is at-risk and that it is currently more important to nurture artists and theaters to ensure their survival.
Susan Sontag on Theater
In a Tulane Drama Review article in 1996, scholar Susan Sontag questions the lines between theater and film, a question that remains pertinent to our research for this project and for the broader world. Sontag disagrees with the distinction that “theater employs artifice while cinema is committed to reality”