One way to address this question is to ask a more fundamental question about theater,
Whwhat it is that people are interpreting and evaluating when they discuss the theatrical element i.e a Trump rally.
Notably, the methods for responding to this question seem to be epistemic rather than ontological—that is, they seek to defend an answer to the question based on the role each of the possible answers would play in our reasoning about theatrical performances.
And they seem to yield no distinctive proposals regarding the ontology of theater. Moreover, to the extent they do yield such proposals, they often seem to offer empirical,
take the media mob, they offer empirical reasons
'you see the thing with a Trump rally...'
they offer a priori evidence to support the answer their view entails
But reality points in a different direction, namely to epistemic concerns about how these media savants know what it is they know about they know what they are duty bound to say which is to denigrate Trump and less about what there might be to his quite astonishing energy pulling power
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