Despite Prince’s recent proclamation of its demise, the World Wide Web is alive and worthy of scrutiny in “The Internet,” a busy but compact production of the Everywhere Theater Group at St. Mark’s Church. The show, as befits its subject, incorporates digital media — video, music samples — as well as those trusty analog standbys, movement and dialogue.  âThe Internetâ: Dan Whalen and his grabby colleagues in a show about the trammeled joys of Web dating, at St. Markâs Church.  The Net, of course, encompasses a universe of applications; this show focuses on instant messages, pornography sites and the illusions, or lies, that computer communication can impose on the dating game.  Chase Voorhees, the videographer and sound designer, waggishly gives Prince a shout-out, playing “Purple Rain” and “Let’s Go Crazy” before the lights dim. Amid a din evoking global cacophony, beeps and hissing suggest that quaint fossil the dial-up modem.  Against a bare black set with a white floor and two large elevated video monitors, the 11 performers are all in constant motion dancing and singing, but four characters are central. In I.M.’s, Dan (Dan Whalen) is wooing Nicki (Nicki Miller), the girlfriend of Tom (Benjamin Myers) — or so he’s known online — who chases Rachel (Rachel Pearl) online behind Nicki’s back.  On the monitors, you see the physical world, where people are glued to their laptops, and onstage there’s the emotional, where people flirt, cry, rant and plead for connection. The script, by Leah Winkler, who also directed with Lindsay Mack, effectively skewers the false personas and banal self-descriptions on dating Web sites while underscoring the longing.  Gradually the online exchanges and video images grow more X-rated and the actors’ movements more zombielike. Tess Frazer Hofmaier strips to a gold lamé-like bikini, an android temptress. The music builds to a “Day in the Life”-like peak, before bodies drop like corpses. The stage empties. And then Tom and Rachel meet, in person, to face a more benign uncertainty.  These appealing young actors have grown up with the Net. For us dinosaurs, it’s a relief to know that apparently it hasn’t made mating any easier. The Web wilderness is just one more territory to traverse in the expanse of human loneliness.
âThe Internetâ is a multimedia show about the search for love, or at least dates, in a wired world.