Gordon Cox Theater EditorThink producing digital play readings is as simple as getting a few actors together on Zoom? Think again.Listen to this week’s “Stagecraft” podcast below:For the starry Spotlight on Plays series, each actor is filmed using their own phone and then edited into a seamless whole.
The bigger the cast, the more “cameras” involved — and one recent Spotlight on Plays show, “The Best Man” with Morgan Freeman, had a cast of 18. “That’s 18 cameras!” said Jim Glaub, one of the producers of Spotlight on Plays. “That’s ‘Star Wars’!
Everyone’s like, ‘Oh, it’s just a Zoom thing.’ No no no!”Glaub appeared on the latest episode of Stagecraft, Variety’s theater podcast, with Lileana Blain-Cruz, the director of Spotlight on Play’s.
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