While we’re on the subject of A Doll’s House, it’s time to unleash my treatise on how many other shows overuse Ibsen’s iconic-cum-cliché ending, a tradition I’ve dubbed Pulling a Nora.
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Author: Steven Strauss
Her Boots Are Made for Walking
Is it possible to spoil theater’s most famous ending?
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Mother Time
How many movies tell stories about characters that span over one decade?
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Roving
No matter how many shows you see, stagecraft can always surprise, even through the simplest riffs on established norms.
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Sour Grapes?
First time, long time.
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A Very Obsessed Man with Enormous Curtain Calls
Should I change Write All Nite’s name to Write All Curtain Calls?
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Rest in VO
“Hii, I’m Todd Haimes.”
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TLDW: Regretfully, Other Cudi
TLDW for Playwrights Horizons’ Regretfully, So the Birds Are, the new movie Other People’s Children, and Kid Cudi cameos:
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Roll Curtain
It also me, the nonsensically-obsessed chronicler of curtain-call norms.
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