And now, we return to one of Write All Nite’s favorite concepts: deliberately-ineffectual art that serves the art’s ultimate effect.
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Category: Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY Lights
Which Way Back to Me
For theater geeks of a certain age, Which Way to the Stage is as reflective as art gets.
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Circling the Drain
A musical version of Romeo and Juliet.
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A Case for the Existence of Perspective
The dramaturgy of A Case for the Existence of God’s staging doubles as existential philosophy.
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Start Making Sense by Stop Making Sense
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
Lyrics can be open to multiple interpretations that change their meaning.
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Toils and Troubles
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
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
Where were you when the ending didn’t drop?
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Allegorical
Let’s talk about allegories, shall we?
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