When you think “stand-up comedy theater”, the Cherry Lane probably comes to mind, a cul-de-sac venue that has cornered the market — er, block? — on shows that mix stand-up comedy and theater.
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Has It Started
When you walk into JACK for White on White, the “pre”-show has already begun.
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Missing Sense
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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Hags
History books will remember documentaries in the 2010s as the era of the celebrity hagiography.
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Clear Out
Write All Nite never goes full Ringer.
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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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Of a Portrait of a Portrait of a Portr
Does a show end at the exact moment the curtain falls?
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