Hot take: Playbills should be handed out at the END of a performance.
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Tag: A Crazy Mirror Showing Us Both in 5-D
Cannot Sit Back, Cannot Relax, Cannot Enjoy
Even though Honor was not produced by The Wooster Group, the production answered an age-old question for my fellow Wooster faithful:
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Do the Twists
Ceilidh utilizes an early twist to set up the audience for the emotional gut punch that is the climactic second twist.
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Substitution
The vast majority of subtitled productions project the translated text line by line onto screens around the stage/house.
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When the Battle’s Fought and Fought
The ending of Richard Nelson’s When the Hurlyburly’s Done is proof positive of how applying auteur theory can alter analysis of the auteur’s individual works.
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Mount ABBA
My incontrovertibly, irrefutably, undeniably, objectively correct Mount Rushmore of ABBA bangers:
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Size Up
The New York Times’ review of The Brothers Size bumps up against the porous border between objective journalism and subjective interpretation.
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Take a Dink
If an artist benefits from making art about an underrepresented group, should said artist try to use the rest of their career to benefit said group?
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Aside
Given the scale of the spectacle and choreography, theatergoers prefer to sit farther away from the stage for large-cast musicals.
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Inter Script
American productions grant critics an analytical privilege that’s readily available to all British audiences.
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