“The ending of one story can be the beginning of the next.”
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Author: Steven Strauss
Staging
About 30 minutes into Breaking, a realization dawned on your boy:
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Life’s A Bitch. Art’s A Bitch. Related?
Macbitches wrestles with the always-zeitgeisty question of whether art that depicts immorality leads to a perpetuation of that depicted immorality outside of art, for audiences and the participating artists alike.
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Splitsies
While by no means the noteworthiest element of I Love My Dad — that’d be the [redacted for spoilers] story, hun — how the movie shows the ways that incessant texting splits our everyday reality is rather adept.
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Credits Call
Does anyone remember last year’s movie Dream Horse??
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Aftertures
An unresearched, armchair, modern history of what I like to call the afterture, or: when the end of the plot isn’t the end of the musical.
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More Life
Perv alert:
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Continuity By Discontinuation
A character’s absence in a play can say more than if they strutted and talked across the boards for its entire duration.
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What’s That Sound (Design)
By definition, a production’s sound design is meant to be heard.
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& No Song List
When American theatergoers first visit London, they tend to report back on one crucial difference:
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