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"When you sit down at a play, movie, or concert--or even in front of the TV or scrolling on your phone--you are taking part in one of the oldest and most mysterious forms of human behavior. Being part of an audience is an age-old experience that we all crave, one that has evolved from amphitheaters to screens. Right This Way is a pop history of audiences through the ages. Playbill editor Robert Viagas unfolds the unique aspects of what he calls ""audiencing"" with stories from the age of the Greeks to the world of Zoom. He walks through the different types of audiences and the history of their responses, what science has to say about how our brains respond to what they see and the reactions of the people around them, and why, during COVID-19, people risked a deadly virus to be part of a crowd. Right This Way explores what the audience experience brings us and how it may evolve in the 21st century."

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Robert Viagas is editor-in-chief of Encore Monthly, as well as an author, a journalist, a lecturer, a podcaster, and a professor. He has spent much of his career working on Broadway with Playbill Inc., the iconic theatre-program company, including as the founding editor of Playbill.com and the Playbill Broadway Yearbook series. His books on the performing arts include The Amazing Story of The Fantasticks and Good Morning, Olive: Haunted Theatres of Broadway and Beyond. Timothy Frost is an in-demand narrator with a background in film and stage acting.

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