Theater has never been the most responsive of art forms.
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What the Staging Becomes
A monologue-heavy two-hander with a bare set has become all the post-Covid rage.
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Mary Me
“I’ve never known a miracle not born through pain.”
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Not Wrecked Yet
Does anyone else remember Anne Washburn’s Shipwreck?
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No Place Like Home
Here’s another doubling involving Days of Wine and Roses’ angular-roof set:
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Whining
If the posted runtime for a 7pm start-time reads, “two hours, with a 15-minute intermission,” do you expect the show to be done by 9pm or 9:15pm?
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Not Again
The foremost chronicler of onstage nudity has logged back on.
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Amendmenting
Correlation or causation?
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Hold Please
Why did modern playwrights stop inserting breaks in between scenes?
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Heteronymity
If you ask me why a title was chosen to be the primary label for a piece of art, I can scrounge together too many connections between the titular word/phrase and the art’s content.
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