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Category: Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY Lights

Start Making Sense by Stop Making Sense

On May 25, 2022May 28, 2022 By Steven StraussIn Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY Lights, Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

Should abstract art clarify the abstraction so that audiences can cohere it into some sort of comprehensible whole?   

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In Good Company

On May 24, 2022May 24, 2022 By Steven StraussIn Boogaloo Down BROADWAY, Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

Lyrics can be open to multiple interpretations that change their meaning.

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Toils and Troubles

On May 19, 2022May 19, 2022 By Steven StraussIn London Calling, Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

Remember when two different theater companies simultaneously decided to stage (restage?) James Baldwin and William Buckley’s 1965 debate?

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Case Made

On May 10, 2022May 22, 2022 By Steven StraussIn Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

When there’s nary an obvious mention of God in a play titled A Case for the Existence of God, what represents the play’s titular deity is open to interpretation.

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At the Ending

On April 18, 2022April 18, 2022 By Steven StraussIn Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

Where were you when the ending didn’t drop?

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Allegorical

On March 7, 2022March 7, 2022 By Steven StraussIn Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY Lights, Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

Let’s talk about allegories, shall we?

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Barriers

On March 3, 2022March 8, 2022 By Steven StraussIn Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

You may question the wisdom of a production that deliberately inflicts physical discomfort upon an audience for dramaturgical purposes.

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Owwww

On February 28, 2022February 28, 2022 By Steven StraussIn Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

A play’s dramaturgy often serves to make the audience’s viewing experience reflect what the characters’ lived experience feels like.

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Versus

On February 24, 2022February 25, 2022 By Steven StraussIn If You Can't Make It Here, Make It Anywhere Else, Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

Seems noteworthy:

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Accentuated

On February 22, 2022February 22, 2022 By Steven StraussIn Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY Lights, Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

I’m a card-carrying member of the “actors, get over your obsession with accents” club.

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