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For You

On December 2, 2024December 2, 2024 By Steven StraussIn Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

Is there inherent virtue in depicting contemporary existence on stage?

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Beat On

On December 1, 2024December 1, 2024 By Steven StraussIn Books, Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

Gatz is like a staged audiobook, with one crucial difference:

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Audible Only

On November 29, 2024November 29, 2024 By Steven StraussIn Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre has a production dictate shared by no other company in New York:

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Bits and Bites

On November 28, 2024November 27, 2024 By Steven StraussIn Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

Contemporary musicals love to shower their audiences with confetti during a triumphant finale. 

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Cuckoo

On November 27, 2024November 25, 2024 By Steven StraussIn Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

Bird challenges societal dogma.

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Small for Small

On November 26, 2024November 25, 2024 By Steven StraussIn Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

Cillian Murphy, humanist actor. 

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Guess Who

On November 25, 2024 By Steven StraussIn Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

When a movie/play is about a sizable family gathering, you can count on early conversations being rife with exposition clearly mapping out their family tree. 

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Right Kind of Wrong

On November 21, 2024November 21, 2024 By Steven StraussIn Boogaloo Down BROADWAY, London CallingLeave a comment

I spent most of Tammy Faye unsure what to make of this new musical’s tone. 

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Heretical

On November 20, 2024November 20, 2024 By Steven StraussIn Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

Casting recognizable actors in undersized roles can meaningfully dupe audience expectations. 

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From Small Things

On November 16, 2024November 13, 2024 By Steven StraussIn Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

An unexpectedly abrupt ending can prompt consideration of why the story concludes on such a surprisingly unresolved note. 

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