Next spring’s Broadway production of Mary Jane will be a double rarity.
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Author: Steven Strauss
First & Last
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store or: when the first chapter is the end of the story.
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Escaped
Escape to Margaritaville is my platonic ideal of a single-artist, non-biographical jukebox musical.
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Leave the Language, Take the Production
Financial precarity, thy name is theater funding.
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Restribution
Retribution’s conceit slyly justifies hiding Liam Neeson’s aging body while still allowing him to exist convincingly in his usual action-thriller genre.
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Jesus Is a #NepoBaby
A #NepoBaby starts their career without a blank slate.
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TLDW: Biosphere
Biosphere is on the worse end of how good a movie could’ve been with its premise and cast.
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Yes. And?
Here are three observations provoked by the new movie The Pod Generation, all revolving around the concept of “and”:
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Monster Mashed
The Last Voyage of the Demeter is an official Universal Pictures Monster Movie that’s basically “What if Pirates of the Caribbean / Master and Commander, but Dracula.”
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Spoilers for the Title
Sympathy for the Devil is a B-movie Collateral that swaps out a dyed-blonde Tom Cruise for a dyed-redhead Nic Cage.
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Write All Nite 