TLDW: Summer, 1976

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Broadway’s Summer, 1976 crisscrosses with a myriad of other art from this past year (and beyond), at least in a TLDW sort of way:

The production could’ve made a nice “women monologuing in Ohio” double feature with Ohio State Murders earlier this season … or a nice “women monologuing in chairs” double feature with A Doll’s House right now.

Summer, 1976 + Signature’s Letters from Max = Jessica Hecht devoting her 2022-2023 season to exploring the alternating-monologue dramatic structure.

To finish out this monologue triumvirate:

What’s up with the preponderance of monologues in Laura Linney’s collobaroations with Manhattan Theatre Club? Before Summer, 1976 came My Name is Lucy Barton (a one-woman play), The Little Foxes (speech heavy), Time Stands Still (ditto; that’s Donald for you), etc.

There’s a movie in theaters right now titled Chile ‘76; what a year for that year.

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