Clubbed Thumb’s production of Angela Hanks’s Bodies They Ritual begins to work its magic on the audience even before the lights dim.
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Tragicomedy
If theater is a study of bodies in space, then the medium has so far largely elided studying how Covid’s ultimate iconography fundamentally altered the ways that modern bodies relate to each other.
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ReCycling, RePsychling, RePsycheling
When Theatre for One’s roving, tête-à-tête box first rolled into the lobby of the Signature Theatre way back in 2016, the programmed micro plays related to each other through little more than their shared means of production.
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O Yondr, Where Art Thou?
Mr. Parker turns the necessary “evil” of Yondr into a dramaturgical good.
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Durable Durations
I hereby request that more movies and stage productions subvert how audiences expect to spend their time in a theater.
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Who Killed My Distance
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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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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