Be Here Now

Broadway is taking the matter of controlling cell phones into its own hands

Have you had the experience of spending a few hundred dollars for concert or show tickets, only to have it spoiled by a beeping cell phone in the rows behind you? Or suffered through a production with an enthusiastic Instagrammer a few seats over?

Has it happened in your neighborhood theatre? At a school or a church event?

In this article from NBC’s Think, author Brian Reesman outlines how some theatres in New York are locking up patrons’ cell phones during a performance with the request that patrons “Be Here Now.”