Simon Rich’s All franchise specializes in pulling a fast one on audiences.
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Tag: A Crazy Mirror Showing Us Both in 5-D
Everything is Staged
An initially-confounding staging choice can interpretatively convey a seemingly-essential message of the show.
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Dazeem
Accusing the second half of a musical as being worse than the first is such a cliché that The Producers could satirize the sentiment with one of my favorite jokes in the show.
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No You Don’t
Magic shows are a theater trend on par with IP parody musicals, stand-up comedy plays, multi-performance staged readings, etceteras.
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Specific to the Site
In theory, all theater is site specific.
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Left Hanging
Curtain-calls function as a natural transition between the production’s constructed reality, and our IRL reality that’s waiting for us as soon as the lights come up.
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Pas de Deuxs
Talking about dance can be like talking about sex:
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Exit Through the Lobby
Kyoto fits snugly in the worn formula of a character guiding us through a historical event and their personal role in it.
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Doubling
oh, Honey and Inter Alia revolve around the same central premise:
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Thousand Words
What if too much of too much theater is too verbal?
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