If an artist benefits from making art about an underrepresented group, should said artist try to use the rest of their career to benefit said group?
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Rock the Boat
The exact same play can land differently on either side of the pond.
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The Keep and the Fly
Why is the barkeep the sole character not to tell a ghost story in The Weir?
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Joy Over Oy
The stage — especially in a musical — is uniquely positioned to showcase the importance of Joy Mangano’s Miracle Mop.
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Janet and Bruce
Welcome to the second installment of Write All Nite’s “Pulling a [Name]” series.
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Angry John
Typecasting comes in two forms.
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From Out Of
What’re the odds that two separate musicals last season would have songs titled “Something from Nothing” and “Something Out of Nothing?”
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Narration Fabulation Nation
Emma Rice’s decision to add a narrator to her stage adaption of North by Northwest leaves open the possibility that the entire production is meant to be understood as propaganda.
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Embodied
Theater casting bends realism more than movie casts.
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A Residency Wrinkle
Washington D.C.’s Arena Stage premiered a musical version of A Wrinkle in Time this month.
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