A night of comedy at the Hollywood Bowl last month was supposed to have been cellphone free, but when its headliner, Dave Chappelle, was tackled onstage, video emerged from a few people who had managed to skirt the rules. They kind of nibble away at it in a way that makes people go into hedgehog mode.”īut the precautions are not foolproof. “But a comedian’s bit being taken out of context and repackaged on social media and reinterpreted - all of these things don’t enhance the art form. “A nude photograph is obviously one very far extreme,” Mr.

Parker” because the show contains a brief moment of nudity. Other shows with nude scenes are now trying them: At the end of May, Penguin Rep Theatre announced that it would deploy Yondr pouches at its upcoming Off Broadway production of “Mr. Roughly a million Yondr pouches were used at live events in April, nearly five times as many as were used the same month in 2019, the company said. The pouches, made by a company called Yondr, have grown increasingly common in recent years, especially at stand-up shows, since comedians are both fiercely protective of their jokes and concerned that some, taken out of context, could cause blowback. Audience members are required to switch off their phones and place them in pouches that are kept locked until the end of the show. Williams surfaced despite the extraordinary steps that Second Stage Theater, the producer of “Take Me Out,” has taken to protect the privacy of the actors who appear nude. Being Broadway royalty offers no protection: Audra McDonald, who has won six Tonys, noticed in 2019 that someone had snapped a photo of her during a nude scene from “ Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune.” “Not cool at all,” she wrote in a tweet. But the chances of being photographed au naturel have grown considerably. Nudity has grown common onstage over the past 50 years, and major stars including Nicole Kidman and Daniel Radcliffe have performed scenes without clothes on Broadway when their scripts have called for it. Now the ubiquity of smartphones with ever-better cameras is leading some actors, particularly celebrities, to reconsider whether to appear nude onstage, given the risk that what is intended as an ephemeral moment can live online forever, out of context. Mobile phones have long disrupted live performances by ringing at inopportune moments, and have irked artists when people use them to illicitly film their work. But he also made it clear that he was not all right with what had happened to him, saying that “putting nonconsensual naked photos of somebody on the internet is really foul.” “I come here to do work - I’m going to tell the truth onstage, I’m going to be vulnerable,” he said. Williams, who became a star through his appearances on “Grey’s Anatomy,” said he was undeterred by the incident. But when his name trended on Twitter the next day, it was not because of the accolade: it was because someone had surreptitiously taken a video of his nude scene and posted it online.

Jesse Williams was nominated for a Tony Award last month for his work in “Take Me Out,” an acclaimed play about baseball and homophobia.

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