The show must Zoom on: theater kids in existential crisis, 2020 edition.
The year is 2020 and the American theater is shut down… but it is not shut off. Off Broadway follows the staff of a non-profit theater as they come together on Zoom and scramble to stave off extinction. The show is a scathing critique of an industry desperately trying to reinvent itself in the midst of a pandemic.
Acting
Dylan Baker's unraveling theater dad energy is pristine.
Direction
O'Hara weaponizes Zoom fatigue as formal critique.
Writing
Dialogue that stings if you've ever had a nonprofit job.
Director
Robert O'Hara
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot entirely in quarantine, it's the first major narrative film to treat Zoom not as constraint but aesthetic — predating even 'Bo Burnham: Inside' as pandemic formal experiment.
Real-life couple Dylan and Becky Ann Baker play estranged exes; their kitchen scene was improvised in one take after their actual WiFi cut out.
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