On a ranked list of the Academy Awards’ litany of (insignificant) sins, the dominance of closing-credit songs over the Best Song Category is at the tippy-top of my own personal grievances.
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Play Gentrification for Me
According to the logline for Misty, the next production at The Shed will follow:
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Straight Line
Theater is a localized art form.
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Samuel L. Parsons
While we’re on the topic of looking as acting, and acting as looking:
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Crafting the Stage
While we’re on the topic of generational stagecraft:
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WWTD
Sometimes, a movie adaptation of a play makes you realize new dimensions to a seemingly straightforward moment of stagecraft in the original production.
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Duplicitous Multiplicity
Here’s the thing about symbolic stagecraft, and really all artistic symbolism:
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Unblockable Blocking
What’s the difference between watching a seance on a stage and watching a seance in “real” life?
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Rituals
Stagecraft is a physical ritual of gesture and word.
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What Does It Mean to Belong
Intentionally is impossible to deduce conclusively on a stage.
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