From Screen to Stage: 2024

A cinematic take on the Tony Awards

It’s Broadway’s biggest night: The Tony Awards!

Admittedly, my longest-lasting memory from this year’s theater season — “Peak Theater,” as Vulture dubbed it — will have nothing to do with scripted dialogue. It will be attending the performance of Ibsen’s ecological allegory An Enemy of the People starring Jeremy Strong and having the performance interrupted by climate change protestors from Extinction Rebellion.

@storyful_viralClimate activists with the Extinction Rebellion group in New York City made several interruptions at a Broadway performance of Henrik Ibsen’s ‘An Enemy of the People’ starring Jeremy Strong and Michael Imperioli on Thursday night, March 14. Credit: Extinction Rebellion NYC via Storyful #jeremystrong #michaelimperioli #anenemyofthepeople #anenemyofthepeopleplay #extinctionrebellion #climatechangeactivists #protest #broadway #newyorkcity #fyp #foryoupage

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(I found my friend and I in the background of one of these videos — major Karen energy from me, even though I genuinely thought it was part of the show and appreciated that the disruption felt at least contextually relevant.)

But anyway, I digress. The relationship between the stage and the screen has always been a uniquely symbiotic one, as I noted in my senior thesis:

So for subscribers, I’m taking an opportunity to reflect on a year in theater as it relates to my ongoing interrogation of the screen. And everyone else, I recommend listening to the Fleetwood Mac-inspired soundtrack to tonight’s surefire winner for Best Play, Stereophonic: