The relationship between form and content is a bedrock of artistic expression.
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Author: Steven Strauss
Trip the Light
Come for Ghostlight, stay for the comparison between how audiences comprehend dance and Shakespearean vernacular.
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Tube of Rubes
Streaming has made documentaries more popular than ever.
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All Ashore
Titanic is the perfect choice for Encores!
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Schreiberling
An advisory for The Big Apple’s Wes Anderson silver-screen completists:
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Bad Is Better Than Nothing
80% of Broadway productions lose money, a distribution I believe to be truer than not for all art, in both a commercial and qualitative sense.
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Whose Day
In an artistic world where it can feel like there’s nothing totally new under the sun, phrasing and context can make the old resonate anew(ish).
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Two Shows
Theater has never been the most responsive of art forms.
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Here Lies Cabaret
What binds this Broadway season’s productions of Here Lies Love and Cabaret?
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What the Staging Becomes
A monologue-heavy two-hander with a bare set has become all the post-Covid rage.
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