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Category: London Calling

Play Gentrification for Me

On January 23, 2023January 23, 2023 By Steven StraussIn London Calling, Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

According to the logline for Misty, the next production at The Shed will follow:

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Straight Line

On January 9, 2023January 8, 2023 By Steven StraussIn London Calling, Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

Theater is a localized art form. 

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TBC

On December 6, 2022December 6, 2022 By Steven StraussIn London CallingLeave a comment

Given theater’s common two-act structure, the intermission break provides a natural spot to insert a cliffhanger.

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The Fuccbois in the Band

On September 8, 2022September 8, 2022 By Steven StraussIn London Calling, Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

The same joke, an ocean away:

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Staging

On August 29, 2022August 29, 2022 By Steven StraussIn London Calling, Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

About 30 minutes into Breaking, a realization dawned on your boy:

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Aftertures

On August 19, 2022August 19, 2022 By Steven StraussIn Boogaloo Down BROADWAY, London CallingLeave a comment

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

On August 8, 2022August 9, 2022 By Steven StraussIn Boogaloo Down BROADWAY, London CallingLeave a comment

When American theatergoers first visit London, they tend to report back on one crucial difference:

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The Goold Standard

On August 6, 2022August 6, 2022 By Steven StraussIn London CallingLeave a comment

On average, plays are talky as fuck.

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Toils and Troubles

On May 19, 2022May 19, 2022 By Steven StraussIn London Calling, Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

Remember when two different theater companies simultaneously decided to stage (restage?) James Baldwin and William Buckley’s 1965 debate?

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High and Low

On May 17, 2022May 18, 2022 By Steven StraussIn Boogaloo Down BROADWAY, London CallingLeave a comment

A window into how my brain works:

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