Weather Girl positions the titular stereotype as a performance-art allegory for projecting culturally-popular femininity, and for society maintaining a cheery facade as the world approaches the climate brink.
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Author: Steven Strauss
A Streetcar Named Almeida
Does London’s Almeida Theatre have a contract stipulation that each and every one of their transfers must retain the building’s natural backdrop?
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What We Went Through
Here are my favorite movies — and one show! — that focus primarily on depicting life during Covid:
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Lock It Up
Locked makes me wonder if movies have already crossed the AI rubicon, at least when it comes to voice acting.
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Miniatures
Casting can change the meaning of a play.
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Bodies Bodies Bodies
It’s been said that the bedrock of theatrical expression is the movement of bodies in space.
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Down the Bear Hole
If you seek out dramaturgy unlike anything you expect, get thee to The Tank for The Goat Exchange’s Deadclass, Ohio.
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Inside the Residency
There’s a reason that Samuel D. Hunter is considered Mr. Idaho.
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Rules
The Rule of Jenny Pen is a What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? starring Geoffrey Rush (uncancelled?) and John Lithgod.
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It Reigns
The final scene of Chaos: The Manson Murders encapsulates this new documentary’s relationship to figuring out the enduring enigma that is Charles Manson.
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