With five minutes to spare before showtime, the audience for a performance of William Shakespeare’s “Pericles: Prince of Tyre” chats idly. But, in true pandemic fashion, they do so in a chat window to the side of the welcome marquee on laptop screens. The Performing Arts Corps of the Sacramento-based Northern California School of the Arts performs the play on Zoom in early December. It’s not quite a film, and it’s not quite theater. The performance is streamed live, but the actors are weaving cinematic elements into the experience using camera tricks. Zoom theater is an emerging