Snobbery about audience behaviour stifles theatre " it's a collective experience | Arifa Akbar by Arifa Akbar

Distracting behaviour, from eating noisily to using mobile phones, is a vexed issue. But the chorus of disapproval often suggests elitism and overlooks theatre's history The recent debate over unruly audience behaviour began, very rightly, with warnings against drunken disorder in auditoriums after horror stories of rowdy musical theatre audiences taking the idea of "dancing in the aisles" a little too literally. But…

« Back to BroadwayStars