Even though both cinema and theater are predominantly observational mediums, they sure do like to avoid steeping the audience in observing the minute face of the act of artistic creation and audience consumption.
Continue reading “Creation and Consumption”
There’s a fundamental storytelling problem at the heart of jukebox musicals:
Continue reading “Hats on Hats on Hats”
I’ve been thinking more about how art mingles with an attentive audience’s sense of perspective, specifically the differences to this equation posed by various mediums.
Continue reading “Two in One”
And now, a Write All Nite pastime:
Continue reading “The Call is Coming from Inside the Orchard”
Recorded on May 11, 2022:
Continue reading “Patti Cakes”
When you think “stand-up comedy theater”, the Cherry Lane probably comes to mind, a cul-de-sac venue that has cornered the market — er, block? — on shows that mix stand-up comedy and theater.
Continue reading “Stand Up”
When you walk into JACK for White on White, the “pre”-show has already begun.
Continue reading “Has It Started”
Clubbed Thumb’s production of Angela Hanks’s Bodies They Ritual begins to work its magic on the audience even before the lights dim.
Continue reading “Missing Sense “
Write All Nite never goes full Ringer.
Continue reading “Clear Out”
If theater is a study of bodies in space, then the medium has so far largely elided studying how Covid’s ultimate iconography fundamentally altered the ways that modern bodies relate to each other.
Continue reading “Tragicomedy”
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