Street Theatre vs. Street AS Theatre

Manhattan's High Line

There is street theater.

And then there's "street as theater."

My favorite part of the eminently satisfying High Line -- Manhattan's answer to the Midtown Greenway (and then some!) -- is an area with five rows of stadium seats, all looking towards a stage with a transparent, plexiglass curtain behind it.

On the other side of the "curtain?"

The (very busy, interesting) street below.