Intentionally is impossible to deduce conclusively on a stage.
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Category: Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY Lights
Lyle, Lyle, Dramaturgy
A musical’s primary dramaturgy is rooted in which parts of the story the composers decide to set to music.
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The Innuendo Is for Porn
Taking an adult stroll down Sesame Street — courtesy of The Musical!, now at Theatre Row — had the unexpected effect of making me realize anew both the extent and the nature of how Avenue Q riffs on the original series.
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Topdog/Underselling
I try to avoid shilling for individual pieces of art.
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Revitalizing the Canon
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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Make It a Quadrilogy
Why have I been so drawn to unconventional uses of curtain calls lately?
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Culpability
Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge is at least the third example in six months of artists using their latest work to stage explicit self-castigations of their own past work.
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Radio Everywhere
Shakespeare’s plays reside so firmly in the public lexicon that their famous lines elicit chuckles of recognition out of audiences.
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(theatric)visions
I’m on the perennial hunt for the artistically unexpected.
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Maximalist Minimalism
The Wooster Group makes an art out of wielding a minimalistic approach for maximal and maximalist effect.
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