The Shrouds isn’t the sole ending in theaters now that feels abrupt enough to have made both of my audiences guffaw at the sheer surprise of the credits rolling.
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Category: Boogaloo Down BROADWAY
Colummm
My eyes had the option of gazing upon the luscious sight of Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal sharing a stage in the flesh.
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Hold Your Applause
Most productions treat entrance applause as a mere break in the action, a pause to allow the audience to celebrate a luminary.
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Full Monties
The title number in Real Women Have Curves strikes a similar chord as the first scene of Act II in Bess Wohl’s Liberation.
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In Ourselves
Differentiation is a form of highlighting.
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Oops
A technical difficulty during my performance of Boop! doubled as a lesson in staging.
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Exeunt
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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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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