Is theatre sci-fi's final frontier?

io9 links to this rant about theatre and SF:

Perhaps this is part of the reason that sci-fi so rarely makes it onto the stage. As well as being regarded with a certain warmth, there’s also a sense of mistrust around the genre. Writers fear that it’s somehow a bit uncool - a bit 70s - and so we get interminable plays about Urgent Contemporary Issues rather than coolly speculative projections. It’s a shame. After all, some of the 20th century’s greatest literature was set in the future - consider 1984, Brave New World and A Clockwork Orange.

Then again, there is some hope for theatre and SF. Maybe sometime I should post a description of my undergraduate theatre prof’s grad school stage adaptation of Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns.