Watching The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy [redux] can feel like a crazy-making experience, befitting a play about a man driven to-infinity-and-beyond his wits’ end.
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Author: Steven Strauss
DIY
It’s always a gas to track overlaps between Under the Radar productions.
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Cameo Joe
One of Joe Pesci’s two scenes in Day of the Fight utilizes the audience’s familiarity with his oeuvre to make us feel the protagonist’s plight.
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It Ends with Them
It Ends with Us is back in the headlines, for reasons having almost nothing to do with what’s in the movie.
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A Sequel Kind of Documentary
A New Kind of Wilderness is basically a documentary sequel to Captain Fantastic.
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Eureka I Am Finding It
Memorizing lines is considered a bedrock of stage acting.
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Wait What’s Wet?
Teeth’s songs skip the typical foreplay of showtunes, opting instead to immediately begin with lyrical shocks to the system.
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Until the Wheels Fall Off
On the stereotypical spectrum of high-school cliques, the jocks would be at one end, and the theater kids would be on the very opposite other side.
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Under the Fan
Read no further unless you saw Shit. Meet. Fan. at MCC.
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With A Quickness
This season’s revivals of Our Town and King Lear cut swaths from their original texts in order to emphasize a shared theme.
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Write All Nite 