The new downtown productions, by embedding theater inside a larger experience, have so far been able to persuade many people to pony up for novelty.
Star casting is now embedded in theater -- which is all the more reason why it shouldn't be treated as something remarkable, even as we may regret its encroachment upon the not-for-profit portion of the field.
One of the United States's first companies to embed theater in the Internet using multiple mediums, MacLaughlin's productions live perpetually online.
Not only is "Rent" embedded in the memories of theater- and filmgoers, its characters are also closely associated with those original actors -- Anthony Rapp, Adam Pascal, Idina Menzel, Jesse L. Martin, Wilson Jermaine Heredia -- who were in their 20s on Broadway and into their 30s on the screen.
Marin Ireland, Sonya in this year's production of "Uncle Vanya," is amazed by how powerful theater becomes when it is embedded in a community.
Grauman's Chinese Theater, famous for the footprints and handprints of Hollywood movie stars embedded in its courtyard's concrete sidewalks, became Mann's Chinese Theater in 1973 after Mr. Mann acquired it.
But at the Paul Taylor Dance Company, which is in residence at the David H. Koch Theater this month, there are performers so embedded in the fabric of his work that it's becoming impossible to imagine the stage without them.
Furthermore, the Oedipus concept in psychoanalysis, they say, institutes a theater of desire in which the psyche is embedded in a family drama closed off from the extra-familial and extra-psychic forces at work in society.
The second half of "The Telling Room" goes highly meta: Paterniti temporarily moves to Guzmán with his wife and two young children, effectively embedding himself in the theater of Ambrosio's cheese war, and then returns home, missing deadline after deadline, unable to pull together a workable draft of the book.
