A practical decision can also serve artistic purposes.
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Author: Steven Strauss
Johnny Come Early
Spoofs extremify the tropes of what’s being satired.
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Tent as Proscenium
Set design defines the bounds of a show’s world, figuratively and literally.
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One Tricked Pony
Art owes a debt to humanity for the proliferation of the Wedding Industrial Complex.
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Identifying
A capsule take on the new movie Unidentified:
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Fire Away
Clubbed Thumb’s motto has long been “funny, strange, provocative.”
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Audience Among Play
What’s up with the mid-play shift in A Woman Among Women?
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Deranging
Derangements possesses a fluidity of character and time.
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Out of Your Shell
Providing an audience with pen and paper to write down their answers to a pre-show prompt isn’t a novel ask.
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Screen Life
Life Hack is Interface Cinema in the vein of Unfriended and Searching.
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