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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The Fuccbois in the Band
The same joke, an ocean away:
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Once Upon a (good?!) Projection
Projections are a necessary evil in the theater world.
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Life’s A Bitch. Art’s A Bitch. Related?
Macbitches wrestles with the always-zeitgeisty question of whether art that depicts immorality leads to a perpetuation of that depicted immorality outside of art, for audiences and the participating artists alike.
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What’s That Sound (Design)
By definition, a production’s sound design is meant to be heard.
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Creation and Consumption
Even though both cinema and theater are predominantly observational mediums, they sure do like to avoid steeping the audience in observing the minute face of the act of artistic creation and audience consumption.
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