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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Category: Boogaloo Down BROADWAY
Make It a Quadrilogy
Why have I been so drawn to unconventional uses of curtain calls lately?
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Mr. Every Night
When an uber fan wants to preach the gospel of Broadway, they tend to focus on the best shows Broadway has to offer.
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Aftertures
An unresearched, armchair, modern history of what I like to call the afterture, or: when the end of the plot isn’t the end of the musical.
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& No Song List
When American theatergoers first visit London, they tend to report back on one crucial difference:
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Two in One
I’ve been thinking more about how art mingles with an attentive audience’s sense of perspective, specifically the differences to this equation posed by various mediums.
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Patti Cakes
Recorded on May 11, 2022:
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Stand Up
When you think “stand-up comedy theater”, the Cherry Lane probably comes to mind, a cul-de-sac venue that has cornered the market — er, block? — on shows that mix stand-up comedy and theater.
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Clear Out
Write All Nite never goes full Ringer.
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Durable Durations
I hereby request that more movies and stage productions subvert how audiences expect to spend their time in a theater.
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Write All Nite 