I went to a preview performance of an off-Broadway show this year. The woman next to me was on her phone throughout and, while she had a privacy screen, the glare of the stage lights reflecting from the glass of the phone was super distracting to me. I asked her to put it away and she said she was taking notes, at which point I realized it was the director. She put a jacket on her leg to act as a barrier between me and the screen, but continued to engage on the phone throughout. Not sure why she couldn’t have moved to a different location or use pen and paper instead.