With A Quickness

On December 13, 2024December 13, 2024 By Steven StraussIn Boogaloo Down BROADWAY, Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

This season’s revivals of Our Town and King Lear cut swaths from their original texts in order to emphasize a shared theme.

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In Perpetuity

On December 6, 2024December 5, 2024 By Steven StraussIn Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

Art has the power to permanently change your association with other pieces of art.

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Lineage

On December 5, 2024December 5, 2024 By Steven StraussIn Boogaloo Down BROADWAY, Further On (Up the Road), Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

There’s nothing more badass than an artist who follows up their most commercially successful hit by pulling an “and now for something completely different.”

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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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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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Living on a Prayer

On November 12, 2024November 11, 2024 By Steven StraussIn Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go See1 Comment

“There is no greater Fuck You in all the world than an old Jew lying in some forgotten graveyard in Europe with a tombstone dated 1946. Fuck. You.”

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Our Monster

On October 31, 2024October 31, 2024 By Steven StraussIn Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY Lights, Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

My fellow Stamptownies should be aware that one of our own has reached the big screen.

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