Although there was only a small audience for Listen Productions' Mediamockracy on the night I attended, its members were intensely involved in the play. As I discovered during the actor-audience chats inserted into the performance, these were media-savvy people, deeply aware of the role of news dissemination in a democracy and passionate about the show's topic: the Democratic National Convention as a media event and, more broadly, the ways in which the media shapes our thoughts and actions...

This new multimedia piece is an inventive, passionate and sometimes infuriating look at the morphing of TV news into corporate infotainment, the dangerous rise in blatantly agenda-based "news" networks and the media's seamy part in the financing of political conventions...

Long before he knew Barack Obama would be the Democratic presidential nominee, local filmmaker Mitch Dickman knew the party's convention here would be an anticlimactic and expensive orgy of spectacle and excess... 

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Still suffering from post-party depression now that the Democratic National Convention is over? Listen Productions has just the cure: DNC Mediamockracy, a multimedia production that combines original video footage from the convention with scripted satire and audience interaction...