Taking an adult stroll down Sesame Street — courtesy of The Musical!, now at Theatre Row — had the unexpected effect of making me realize anew both the extent and the nature of how Avenue Q riffs on the original series.
Continue reading “The Innuendo Is for Porn”
There’s a noble tradition throughout the annals of musical theater history that I like to call the “Now, Ulla belt!”
Continue reading “Mueller?… Mueller?… Mueller?”
I try to avoid shilling for individual pieces of art.
Continue reading “Topdog/Underselling”
One of the foremost pleasures of religiously following the theater world is being able to track generational canonization in real time.
Continue reading “Revitalizing the Canon”
Why have I been so drawn to unconventional uses of curtain calls lately?
Continue reading “Make It a Quadrilogy”
Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge is at least the third example in six months of artists using their latest work to stage explicit self-castigations of their own past work.
Continue reading “Culpability”
Shakespeare’s plays reside so firmly in the public lexicon that their famous lines elicit chuckles of recognition out of audiences.
Continue reading “Radio Everywhere”
I’m on the perennial hunt for the artistically unexpected.
Continue reading “(theatric)visions”
The Wooster Group makes an art out of wielding a minimalistic approach for maximal and maximalist effect.
Continue reading “Maximalist Minimalism”
The same joke, an ocean away:
Continue reading “The Fuccbois in the Band”
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