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Article Search Advanced Search Theaters Embrace Digital Age By Mark Blankenship Mar 22, 2008, 02:30 In the past 15 years, most branches of showbiz have undergone a high-tech revolution, as digital technology has changed everything from a film's visual effects to the way a music album is sold. Now theater, the last holdout, seems to have lowered its resistance and is embracing the changes. Only a few seasons ago, audiences complained of migraines induced by the computer-animated sets of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Woman in White and critics yawned over the prosaic projections in the failed Johnny Cash musical, Ring of Fire. Before it came to Broadway, Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia trilogy experimented with electronic design, yielding an ambivalent response in London and a decision to opt for more traditional stage design in the New York production. Click www.variety.com for the complete story. Email this article  Printer friendly page