Providing an audience with pen and paper to write down their answers to a pre-show prompt isn’t a novel ask.
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Tag: New York City Serenades
Old As Time
Biographical readings of why actors choose certain roles are seductively unverifiable.
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Let There Be Site
The most site-specific “theaters” in New York are House of the Redeemer and East Village Basement.
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Move Away
The Balusters is about the changing of cultural identity.
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Mirror Mirror
Three 2026 productions open themselves to different interpretations based on whether you recognize their directors on stage.
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Choir Praxis
A specific moment in Cold War Choir Practice functions as a testament to its artistic finesse, and doubles as a metaphor for one of this new play’s primary themes.
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Putting the Ex in Deus Ex Machina
Fallen Angels’ Maurice feels designed to be cast as a celebrity cameo.
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No Small Parts
There’s a meaningful disparity between Taraji P. Henson’s fame relative to the rest of her Joe Turner’s Come and Gone ensemble, and the size of her role.
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Hide and Seek
Musicals are considered a fluffy medium.
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Goliath
David Cale’s last two plays feel like companion pieces, about artists whose interrelated thirst for companionship and literary inspiration bleeds the porous psychic boundaries between their personal lives and their art.
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