Sunday 27 January 2013

INQUIRER.net: Providence theater experiments with ‘tweet seats’

INQUIRER.net
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Providence theater experiments with 'tweet seats'
Jan 28th 2013, 00:02

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island – Sarah Bertness slipped into her seat at a recent staging of the musical "Million Dollar Quartet" and, when the lights dimmed, started doing something that's long been taboo inside theaters: typing away at her iPhone.   The 26-year-old freelance writer from Providence wasn't being rude. She had a spot in the "tweet seat" section at the Providence Performing Arts Center.   The downtown theater is now setting aside a small number of seats — in the back — for those who promise to live-tweet from the performance using a special hash tag. They might offer impressions of the set, music or costumes, lines of dialogue that resonate with them ...

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