Newton playwright creates live theater show Community Content Mark Binder, a Providence-based author and playwright, born in Newton, created a live theater experience show on Zoom that attracted local audiences and viewers from around the world. Although produced by The Wilbury Group Theater in Providence, Rhode Island, on any given night people are watching from New York, Washington, Melbourne and Berlin. His play, “The Race” shows two men competing for the same job in a dysfunctional corporate Zoomscape. It uses the limitations and features of Zoom to engage the audience, making them complicit as the search committee. “I’d seen a lot of Zoom performances that were awkward and frustrating,” said Mark Binder. “‘The Race’ was designed to both engage the authors but also allow the actors to do great work in a new form."