How would 21st century cash-strapped Americans respond if they encountered the supernatural?
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Author: Steven Strauss
Mueller?… Mueller?… Mueller?
There’s a noble tradition throughout the annals of musical theater history that I like to call the “Now, Ulla belt!”
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Topdog/Underselling
I try to avoid shilling for individual pieces of art.
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Revitalizing the Canon
One of the foremost pleasures of religiously following the theater world is being able to track generational canonization in real time.
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Allow Me to Reintroduce Myself
My name is critique, oh!
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Make It a Quadrilogy
Why have I been so drawn to unconventional uses of curtain calls lately?
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Culpability
Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge is at least the third example in six months of artists using their latest work to stage explicit self-castigations of their own past work.
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Voodoo, Indeed
When playing a celebrity, actors can don one of three general approaches:
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Hysteriacal
Terrifier 2 has Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp written all over it.
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Radio Everywhere
Shakespeare’s plays reside so firmly in the public lexicon that their famous lines elicit chuckles of recognition out of audiences.
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