To move from a discussion of the early relationship between theatre and television to an examination of the current situation of live performance is to confront the irony that whereas television initially sought to replicate and, implicitly, to replace live theatre, live performance itself has developed since that time toward the replication of the discourse of mediatization.
Philip Auslander (2002). “Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture”, p.23, Routledge
