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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Author: Steven Strauss
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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All Expressions on the Artistic Front
Two straight days of calling attention to seemingly throwaway moments in art that nevertheless demonstrate the practical alchemy of the relationship between audience and art.
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(theatric)visions
I’m on the perennial hunt for the artistically unexpected.
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Scowl
“Why is this movie talking down to me?” is a criticism usually lobbed at “artsy-fartsy” cinema.
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