Robert Viagas: Audience Auteur

First Online With Fran

Losing or winning an argument is not just a zero-sum game. Working together, collaborating is something that you have to learn. The most important part is not you getting all you want all the time, but learning how to feel satisfaction, even if your collaborator talks you into something else. How to find satisfaction within that and helping them to do the same thing. This seems esoteric, but you know something, it's not. And I think that is something we've lost...and something that the world of The Arts could teach our public discourse.

Robert Viagas is an author and historian specializing in theatre. He was an editor at Playbill for 24 years, during which time he created Playbill.com, the theatre news service that’s now the standard source in our industry.