The inscrutability of Shakespeare’s language is often cited as the primary reason that Americans have little interest in revisiting his plays again and again and again and and and so on and so forth.
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Author: Steven Strauss
Faw lty
Let’s play another round of “why does this production have an intermission?”
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Joy Over Oy
The stage — especially in a musical — is uniquely positioned to showcase the importance of Joy Mangano’s Miracle Mop.
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Youthanasia
When doing what you love is a form of suicide.
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Edge of Apocalypse
Ending a story at a point that feels premature can inspire us to consider the message conveyed by this seemingly-incomplete conclusion.
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Janet and Bruce
Welcome to the second installment of Write All Nite’s “Pulling a [Name]” series.
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Angry John
Typecasting comes in two forms.
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One Small Step
AA sponsors are mainstays in addiction narratives.
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From Out Of
What’re the odds that two separate musicals last season would have songs titled “Something from Nothing” and “Something Out of Nothing?”
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Narration Fabulation Nation
Emma Rice’s decision to add a narrator to her stage adaption of North by Northwest leaves open the possibility that the entire production is meant to be understood as propaganda.
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