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Actors Halt Plays Over Audience Phone, Laptop Distractions
6/14/2026
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Story summary
- Rosamund Pike glared at a woman and silenced a minute-long phone alarm during Inter Alia in the United Kingdom.
- Staff said controlling phones is hard because at least one device is used in each show.
- Pike had earlier rebuked a texter at Wyndham’s theatre in London during the same play.
- Cynthia Erivo halted Dracula after audience members filmed.
- Andrew Scott stopped a Hamlet soliloquy after audience members used laptops.
