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Staging

On August 29, 2022August 29, 2022 By Steven StraussIn London Calling, Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

About 30 minutes into Breaking, a realization dawned on your boy:

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Life’s A Bitch. Art’s A Bitch. Related?

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

Macbitches wrestles with the always-zeitgeisty question of whether art that depicts immorality leads to a perpetuation of that depicted immorality outside of art, for audiences and the participating artists alike.

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Splitsies

On August 25, 2022August 25, 2022 By Steven StraussIn Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

While by no means the noteworthiest element of I Love My Dad — that’d be the [redacted for spoilers] story, hun — how the movie shows the ways that incessant texting splits our everyday reality is rather adept.

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Credits Call

On August 24, 2022August 24, 2022 By Steven StraussIn Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

Does anyone remember last year’s movie Dream Horse??

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Aftertures

On August 19, 2022August 19, 2022 By Steven StraussIn Boogaloo Down BROADWAY, London CallingLeave a comment

An unresearched, armchair, modern history of what I like to call the afterture, or: when the end of the plot isn’t the end of the musical. 

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More Life

On August 16, 2022August 16, 2022 By Steven StraussIn Books, Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

Perv alert: 

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Continuity By Discontinuation

On August 15, 2022August 15, 2022 By Steven StraussIn Further On (Up the Road)Leave a comment

A character’s absence in a play can say more than if they strutted and talked across the boards for its entire duration. 

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What’s That Sound (Design)

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

By definition, a production’s sound design is meant to be heard. 

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& No Song List

On August 8, 2022August 9, 2022 By Steven StraussIn Boogaloo Down BROADWAY, London CallingLeave a comment

When American theatergoers first visit London, they tend to report back on one crucial difference:

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The Goold Standard

On August 6, 2022August 6, 2022 By Steven StraussIn London CallingLeave a comment

On average, plays are talky as fuck.

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