In theory, all theater is site specific.
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Category: London Calling
Doubling
oh, Honey and Inter Alia revolve around the same central premise:
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Aside
Given the scale of the spectacle and choreography, theatergoers prefer to sit farther away from the stage for large-cast musicals.
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Inter Script
American productions grant critics an analytical privilege that’s readily available to all British audiences.
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Rock the Boat
The exact same play can land differently on either side of the pond.
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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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One Small Step
AA sponsors are mainstays in addiction narratives.
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Narration Fabulation Nation
Emma Rice’s decision to add a narrator to her stage adaption of North by Northwest leaves open the possibility that the entire production is meant to be understood as propaganda.
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In Around
Generally speaking — AKA, I KNOW THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS APLENTY — musicals are staged in bigger theaters than plays.
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