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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Told You So
On November 11, 2024, some dopey website by the name of Write All Nite — by the even dopier Steven Strauss — proclaimed this prediction:
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Let There Be No Light
Too many movie theaters bring up the lights as soon as the closing credits start, even if there’s still an image on screen.
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Aside
Given the scale of the spectacle and choreography, theatergoers prefer to sit farther away from the stage for large-cast musicals.
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Inter Script
American productions grant critics an analytical privilege that’s readily available to all British audiences.
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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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Pursuing a Bear
The inscrutability of Shakespeare’s language is often cited as the primary reason that Americans have little interest in revisiting his plays again and again and again and and and so on and so forth.
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Faw lty
Let’s play another round of “why does this production have an intermission?”
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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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