Right is Right

On February 20, 2024February 19, 2024 By Steven StraussIn Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

If you plan to see — and you should — Public Obscenities at Theatre for a New Audience before it closes on Sunday, then take my experienced advice:

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Words to the Wise

On February 8, 2024February 9, 2024 By Steven StraussIn Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

If you plan to see Taylor Mac’s Bark of Millions this week, it would be wise to primer yourself beforehand.

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UTReverberations

On February 2, 2024February 5, 2024 By Steven StraussIn Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

Festivals provide a cross-section of what’s tickling artists’ ivories at that specific juncture in time.

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The First in Memory

On January 29, 2024January 29, 2024 By Steven StraussIn Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

Art about the making of art is ubiquitous.

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Stephen Symmetry

On January 25, 2024January 25, 2024 By Steven StraussIn Boogaloo Down BROADWAY, Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

Stephen Sondheim, master of constructing bookends.

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Master Wooster

On January 19, 2024January 18, 2024 By Steven StraussIn Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

Eric Berryman’s Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me is back at the Wooster Group’s Performing Garage through February 3; here’s what I wrote about an earlier iteration of the show from September 2022:

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With And

On January 17, 2024January 16, 2024 By Steven StraussIn Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

Speaking of Godra:

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Gypsy Waitlist, Updated

On January 8, 2024January 6, 2024 By Steven StraussIn Boogaloo Down BROADWAYLeave a comment

Back in November of 2022, Write All Nite published a list of the thespians next in line to play Mama Rose.

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Brillophonic

On December 19, 2023December 18, 2023 By Steven StraussIn Look Over Yonder See Them OFF-BROADWAY LightsLeave a comment

If you want to sell out an off-Broadway show, cast Will Brill.

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Left Behind

On December 13, 2023December 13, 2023 By Steven StraussIn Books, Remember All the Movies, Terry, We'd Go SeeLeave a comment

Leave the World Behind has been put through the Covid ringer, transforming it into an artifact of how the Covid Era shapes contemporaneous art.

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