A New Kind of Wilderness is basically a documentary sequel to Captain Fantastic.
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Author: Steven Strauss
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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Cirque du Theater
If you’ve seen a few Cirque du Soleil productions — or any circus, really — then the acts in Yuletide Factory won’t seem particularly revelatory.
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In Perpetuity
Art has the power to permanently change your association with other pieces of art.
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Lineage
There’s nothing more badass than an artist who follows up their most commercially successful hit by pulling an “and now for something completely different.”
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For You
Is there inherent virtue in depicting contemporary existence on stage?
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