American productions grant critics an analytical privilege that’s readily available to all British audiences.
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Author: Steven Strauss
Rock the Boat
The exact same play can land differently on either side of the pond.
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The Keep and the Fly
Why is the barkeep the sole character not to tell a ghost story in The Weir?
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Pursuing a Bear
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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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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