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Stand Up

On July 12, 2022July 13, 2022 By Steven StraussIn Boogaloo Down BROADWAY, Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

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

On July 11, 2022July 12, 2022 By Steven StraussIn Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

When you walk into JACK for White on White, the “pre”-show has already begun.

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Missing Sense 

On July 8, 2022July 10, 2022 By Steven StraussIn Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

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

On July 7, 2022July 8, 2022 By Steven StraussIn Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go See1 Comment

History books will remember documentaries in the 2010s as the era of the celebrity hagiography. 

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Clear Out

On July 6, 2022July 6, 2022 By Steven StraussIn Boogaloo Down BROADWAY1 Comment

Write All Nite never goes full Ringer.

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Tragicomedy

On July 1, 2022July 8, 2022 By Steven StraussIn Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY Lights, Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

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

On June 29, 2022June 30, 2022 By Steven StraussIn Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

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?

On June 27, 2022June 27, 2022 By Steven StraussIn Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

Mr. Parker turns the necessary “evil” of Yondr into a dramaturgical good.

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Durable Durations

On June 23, 2022June 23, 2022 By Steven StraussIn Boogaloo Down BROADWAY, Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY Lights, Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

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

On June 20, 2022June 21, 2022 By Steven StraussIn Boogaloo Down BROADWAYLeave a comment

Does a show end at the exact moment the curtain falls?

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