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Category: London Calling

Trigger Unhappy

On May 20, 2025May 22, 2025 By Steven StraussIn London Calling, Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

The Years, or: when trigger warnings double as dramaturgy. 

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The First Gaffe

On May 9, 2025May 15, 2025 By Steven StraussIn London Calling, Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

Attention spans are fickle. 

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AYM

On April 25, 2025April 25, 2025 By Steven StraussIn London CallingLeave a comment

Manhunt is Nicolas Winding Refn’s Bronson for the stage. 

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Exeunt

On April 22, 2025April 21, 2025 By Steven StraussIn Boogaloo Down BROADWAY, London Calling, Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

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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Cymbelspice

On April 21, 2025April 20, 2025 By Steven StraussIn London CallingLeave a comment

Cymbeline, but make it Denis Villeneuve’s Dune.

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No Chill

On April 18, 2025April 18, 2025 By Steven StraussIn London CallingLeave a comment

Deviating from cliches in art can draw attention to the deviation. 

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Reviewing the Situation

On April 15, 2025April 14, 2025 By Steven StraussIn London CallingLeave a comment

Cameron Mackintosh’s (or is it Matthew Bourne’s?) Oliver! — now at London’s Gielgud Theatre — has the aesthetics of Tommy Kail’s Sweeney Todd.

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Choreous

On April 14, 2025April 13, 2025 By Steven StraussIn London CallingLeave a comment

I’m no scholar of antiquity, but my understanding of Greek tragedies is that they oscillate between character scenes and chorus scenes.

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Seaside Pub Song

On April 10, 2025April 10, 2025 By Steven StraussIn London CallingLeave a comment

When a musical is based on a known property, the powers-that-be seem to believe that adding songs is enough of a change to raise interest in a story that audiences are already familiar with. 

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Trinicorn

On April 9, 2025April 8, 2025 By Steven StraussIn London CallingLeave a comment

Unicorn is a dramaturgical thought-experiment.

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