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Not long ago, on Twitter, I posed the following question: what was the last technological innovation that led to a revolution in theater?

One historically-minded friend answered “When Thespis stepped out of the chorus,” which struck me as part wisecrack, part wise. After all, isn’t acting one of the two essential technologies of theater? (The other, of course, is writing; without either performers or a script—even an improvised or movement-based script—there is no…