In theory, all theater is site specific.
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Category: Further On (Up the Road)
Do the Twists
Ceilidh utilizes an early twist to set up the audience for the emotional gut punch that is the climactic second twist.
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Size Up
The New York Times’ review of The Brothers Size bumps up against the porous border between objective journalism and subjective interpretation.
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Louder Than Words
A Wrinkle in Time’s script explicitly justifies the decision to adapt the novel into this new musical.
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The Ability of Accessibility
Ryan J. Haddad has schooled me on how accessibility pertains to the entire audience, and not solely those who “need” such devices.
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A Residency Wrinkle
Washington D.C.’s Arena Stage premiered a musical version of A Wrinkle in Time this month.
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The Returns
Does anyone else miss when New York’s Signature Theatre would devote each season to producing multiple productions by the same playwright?
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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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Semantics Matter
What do you call the bar that separates adjacent seats in a theater?
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Escaped
Escape to Margaritaville is my platonic ideal of a single-artist, non-biographical jukebox musical.
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