Talking about dance can be like talking about sex:
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Exit Through the Lobby
Kyoto fits snugly in the worn formula of a character guiding us through a historical event and their personal role in it.
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Doubling
oh, Honey and Inter Alia revolve around the same central premise:
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Thousand Words
What if too much of too much theater is too verbal?
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Krapp’s Last Space
The NYU Skirball Center seems like an unlikely venue for Samuel Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape.
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Intermissioning
There are two types of intermissions.
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Cannot Sit Back, Cannot Relax, Cannot Enjoy
Even though Honor was not produced by The Wooster Group, the production answered an age-old question for my fellow Wooster faithful:
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Substitution
The vast majority of subtitled productions project the translated text line by line onto screens around the stage/house.
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When the Battle’s Fought and Fought
The ending of Richard Nelson’s When the Hurlyburly’s Done is proof positive of how applying auteur theory can alter analysis of the auteur’s individual works.
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Size Up
The New York Times’ review of The Brothers Size bumps up against the porous border between objective journalism and subjective interpretation.
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