In yesterday’s defense of movie-turned-musicals, I focused almost exclusively on analyzing this macro trend, rarely touching upon any specific micro examples.
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In yesterday’s defense of movie-turned-musicals, I focused almost exclusively on analyzing this macro trend, rarely touching upon any specific micro examples.
Continue reading “No, Seriously, There’s Nothing Wrong With That”
Ever since the Tony Awards announced their Hollywood-property-dominated slate of nominees this year, a plethora of hot-take-prone cultural critics started — though really continued a trend that predates this season — bemoaning the fact that Broadway looks a lot more like movie theaters nowadays.
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The following request would probably be more appropriate — and potentially more effective — on Twitter, but it’s a cause too near and dear to my heart to relegate to the trenches of social media discourse.
Me and My Girl, the final production of this Encores! season, is very…Encores!
I concluded my recent post about expanding our conception of artistic originality by quoting, gulp, Kanye West.
Back in 2016, there was a concert performance of Ragtime inside the Registry Room on Ellis Island.
In case yesterday’s esotericism didn’t make this clear, let me state simply for the record: Steven Soderbergh’s Unsane is my favorite movie of 2018 thus far.
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It’s considered a faux pas in critical circles to suggest how a show could improve.