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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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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Write All Nite 