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The Group Improv Everywhere is postmodern because it takes theater out of the domain of a room with a stage and into the streets but that is not the only reason it is post modern, the performance itself (for the most part) is not staged but simply an idea. Another reason is that the people who participate in the missions find out about the event on the internet using a technology that is post modern because besides the internet there is no other way to find out about the missions or to see them unless someone captures it on a camera and then posts it on a website like Youtube. The main mission of the group was to bring performance art out of the theater and while that has always been around the general chaos (be it good or bad) and lack of plan that occurs in an event is what makes it post modern.

This website provides 9 main techniques/elements used and found in postmodern pieces of theatre, as well as providing a brief history of the movement. However, it also warns that postmodern theatre tends to reject labels of genre and style, so that none of the techniques may be present in a particular play and it could still be considered a postmodern piece. The unifying postmodern thread, instead, is that they are tools to make audiences raise questions and reflect on their own lives and experiences. Along with providing these definitions, the site also offers some examples of landmark postmodern pieces, such as Sam Shepard's "Buried Child" and Onzo Production's "Fuerza Bruta", and provides links to learn more about them.

This group of videos was a play created by several students at the university of Michigan who wrote the musical based on and parodying the Harry Potter book series by J.K. Rowling. They then casted the parts and performed it for a 3 day period of time and 5 times in total at a local non-profit student-run theater company, but was video-taped and put on YouTube. The reason this video is post-modern because if it weren't for YouTube, the play would never have become as popular as it is today, where people around the country know of it. Due to the success of the video series on Youtube, the writers and producers are able to create more and more plays and musicals are becoming exponentially more famous they would have been had a site like Youtube not been created. Now the creators and actors in this musical are appearing on television and such fame would not be possible if the internet and current technology was available.