Conventional wisdom says there’s one surefire sign that a musical has a fire score:
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Tag: A Crazy Mirror Showing Us Both in 5-D
Dodo as a Dodo
When I buy a ticket for a puppet show, I expect the smaller scale, DIY theater that exists in the realm of the handheld.
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What Reigns
Staged chaos is an oxymoron in terms.
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Open Clarification
The Dan Daw Show’s open captions alter how we process sequences designed to seem potentially off-script.
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Soft Shifts
The specific counters of a theater’s building can inform a production’s staging choices.
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Not So Wonderful
Is Wonderful World Broadway’s crossing-the-Rubicon moment for the use of projections?
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But Why Not
Ask everyone who sees Queer for a basic plot summary, and you won’t hear many mentions of Judaism, the Holocaust, nor 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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Voyage
Watching The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy [redux] can feel like a crazy-making experience, befitting a play about a man driven to-infinity-and-beyond his wits’ end.
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DIY
It’s always a gas to track overlaps between Under the Radar productions.
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Eureka I Am Finding It
Memorizing lines is considered a bedrock of stage acting.
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