Starting a review of the relentlessly fluffy The Greatest Showman with a topic as serious as authorial intent may be unexpected, but that’s kind of the point:
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Hot take: Every production that plays on Broadway for an extended period of time should be REQUIRED to provide tickets to Tony Awards voters.
The SpongeBob SquarePapers: Books
Sometimes fascinating failures inspire more thoughts to explore than straightforward successes. Such is the case for the SpongeBob SquarePants Broadway musical, a show that indirectly touches upon a wide range of subjects regarding the state of theatre (and other topics). In the coming days, I’ll excavate some of these ideas in a series dubbed The SpongeBob SquarePapers:
The SpongeBob SquarePapers: Orchestras
Sometimes fascinating failures inspire more thoughts to explore than straightforward successes. Such is the case for the SpongeBob SquarePants Broadway musical, a show that indirectly touches upon a wide range of subjects regarding the state of theatre (and other topics). In the coming days, I’ll excavate some of these ideas in a series dubbed The SpongeBob SquarePapers:
The SpongeBob SquarePapers: Marijuana
Sometimes fascinating failures inspire more thoughts to explore than straightforward successes. Such is the case for the SpongeBob SquarePants Broadway musical, a show that indirectly touches upon a wide range of subjects regarding the state of theatre (and other topics). In the coming days, I’ll excavate some of these ideas in a series dubbed The SpongeBob SquarePapers:
The SpongeBob SquarePapers: Scores
Sometimes fascinating failures inspire more thoughts to explore than straightforward successes. Such is the case for the SpongeBob SquarePants Broadway musical, a show that indirectly touches upon a wide range of subjects regarding the state of theatre (and other topics). In the coming days, I’ll excavate some of these ideas in a series dubbed The SpongeBob SquarePapers:
JOHN LITHGOW: STORIES BY HEART (Roundabout)
The title John Lithgow: Stories By Heart succinctly describes this one-man play starring, who else, John Lithgow, currently running at the Roundabout Theatre Club’s American Airlines Theatre:
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SHADOWLANDS (Fellowship for Performing Arts)
Fellowship for Performing Arts’ revival of William Nicholson’s 30-year-old, Tony Award-nominated Shadowlands — directed at a monotonously dull pace by Christa Scott-Reed at Theatre Row — is a period play that persistently plays the artificial period, not its timelessly human truth.
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DIASPORA (Gym at Judson)
At a time when so many curmudgeons complain that every story has already been told on the stage and screen, Birthright remains a surprisingly untapped subject. A group of horny, wealthy adolescents partying their way through an exotic foreign locale? WHERE’S MY TICKET?!
THE WOLVES (Lincoln Center)
If you’re even remotely tapped into the theatre world, then you’ve already read all the much-deserved praise regarding Lila Neugebauer’s direction of the true-ensemble in Pulitzer Prize finalist Sarah DeLappe’s The Wolves, currently winding down its third (3rd!) production in New York City, this time at Lincoln Center’s off-Broadway Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. As such, hopefully you won’t fault me for not repeating it here.
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