Maybe that’s why I’m the only one still in his corner…kinda. ANARCHIST + CHINA DOLL were bad, but can we exclusively blame his writing?
— Steven Strauss (@aintnohero) March 24, 2017
Category: Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY Lights
MAN FROM NEBRASKA (Second Stage): Rapturously Sculpting Our Rapture (Tweet-of-Consciousness)
Almost felt like a movie w/ short, non-dialogue driven scenes featuring a series of characters sharing intimate exchanges in many locales
— Steven Strauss (@aintnohero) March 23, 2017
Theatre Roundup (Tweet-of-Consciousness)
THIS WEEK’S LINEUP
Bull in a China Shop (LCT3)
Dear Evan Hansen (Broadway)
Escaped Alone (BAM)
THE GABRIELS: Election Year in the Life of One Family (Public)
Hamilton (Broadway)
Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (Broadway)
The Object Lesson (NYTW)
The Present (Broadway)
The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (McKittrick)
Sunday in the Park with George (Broadway)
Tell Hector I Miss Him (Atlantic)
Tweet of Consciousness: Weekend News Roundup
News regarding Escape to Margaritaville; Sweat; Hamilton in London’s quest to stop scalpers/touts; the Stuttering Association for the Young (and Bruce Springsteen, kinda); the Ambassador Theatre Group/Colonial Theatre; and the Nassau Coliseum:
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THE BABYLON LINE After Line After Line After Line After Line After Line After
What follows is a pithy textual representation of The Babylon Line, Richard Greenberg’s oh-so Greenberg-ian new play currently running at Lincoln Center’s off-Broadway Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater through January 22:[1]
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Tweet of Consciousness: THE FEVER (600 HIGHWAYMEN; The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival)
2. But with 1 of the worst last lines of the season: “This is the end…or is it a sort of beginning?” Bit too on the nose, no?
— Steven Strauss (@aintnohero) January 6, 2017
Dear Second Stage: WHYYYYYYY?!?!
The Sparknotes version of the essential background information that you need to understand my impending temper tantrum: one of the best off-Broadway, nonprofit theatre companies – Second Stage (2ST) – recently upped their digs to the Great White Way by buying the Helen Hayes Theatre, the smallest on Broadway and thus perfectly suited for plays and more intimate musicals. For anyone who bemoans the lack of new plays on Broadway, this is objectively a stupendous development because 2ST has long been devoted to exclusively producing such work (they also stage new musicals like Next to Normal and Dear Evan Hansen, but despite the superior quality of these, I just can’t be AS excited about the prospect of more always-prevalent new musicals on the Great White Way). To quote lyrics from the former musical: “It’s gonna be good/It’s gonna be good/It’s gonna be great/It’s gonna be fucking great!” Or is it?
Tales of the American Heart(land)
Amidst the seemingly endless array of doomsday scenarios regarding the onset of Trump’s America being bandied about by many artists – a majority of whom are obviously liberal – a rare, commonly held bright spot in this darkness is the promise that at the very least some amazing art will be created in response to the years ahead. Very few have ever countered the quasi-adage ‘misery inspires better art than happiness’ for a reason.
Tweet of Consciousness: RIDE THE CYCLONE (MCC Theater)
1. RIDE THE CYCLONE (MCC): Its quality is sadly a perfect fit for the amateur high school auditorium vibe of The Lucille Lortel Theatre
— Write All Nite (@aintnohero) December 24, 2016
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Tweet of Consciousness: THE WOLVES (Sarah DeLappe, Playwrights Realm)
2. Namely: lack of thematic focus in favor of packing play with as many intellectually witty conversational observations as possible
— Write All Nite (@aintnohero) December 22, 2016
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