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.
For a movie or show to be nominated for Best Score at the Oscars or Tony (or any other offshoot) Awards, the music written for it must be predominantly original.
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