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.
Continue reading “Life’s A Bitch. Art’s A Bitch. Related?”
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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Perv alert:
Continue reading “More Life”
A character’s absence in a play can say more than if they strutted and talked across the boards for its entire duration.
Continue reading “Continuity By Discontinuation”
By definition, a production’s sound design is meant to be heard.
Continue reading “What’s That Sound (Design)”
When American theatergoers first visit London, they tend to report back on one crucial difference:
Continue reading “& No Song List”
On average, plays are talky as fuck.
Continue reading “The Goold Standard”
Even though both cinema and theater are predominantly observational mediums, they sure do like to avoid steeping the audience in observing the minute face of the act of artistic creation and audience consumption.
Continue reading “Creation and Consumption”
Scripts — or is it audiences? — are too wedded to cause and effect.
Continue reading “What Does Lars’ Fox Say?”
There’s a fundamental storytelling problem at the heart of jukebox musicals:
Continue reading “Hats on Hats on Hats”
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