What’s up with British productions staging moments in which their actors exit not only the stage, but the entire theater?
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Category: Boogaloo Down BROADWAY
Dodo as a Dodo
When I buy a ticket for a puppet show, I expect the smaller scale, DIY theater that exists in the realm of the handheld.
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Soft Shifts
The specific counters of a theater’s building can inform a production’s staging choices.
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Not So Wonderful
Is Wonderful World Broadway’s crossing-the-Rubicon moment for the use of projections?
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Eureka I Am Finding It
Memorizing lines is considered a bedrock of stage acting.
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With A Quickness
This season’s revivals of Our Town and King Lear cut swaths from their original texts in order to emphasize a shared theme.
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Lineage
There’s nothing more badass than an artist who follows up their most commercially successful hit by pulling an “and now for something completely different.”
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Right Kind of Wrong
I spent most of Tammy Faye unsure what to make of this new musical’s tone.
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Speak Twice
Am I the only person who spent most of Speak No Evil wondering what the movie would look like if James McAvoy and Scoot McNairy switched roles?
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Welcome?
The dark web is a distinctly 21st-century phenomenon.
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