I try to avoid shilling for individual pieces of art.
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Tag: New York City Serenades
Revitalizing the Canon
One of the foremost pleasures of religiously following the theater world is being able to track generational canonization in real time.
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Make It a Quadrilogy
Why have I been so drawn to unconventional uses of curtain calls lately?
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Culpability
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.
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Radio Everywhere
Shakespeare’s plays reside so firmly in the public lexicon that their famous lines elicit chuckles of recognition out of audiences.
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(theatric)visions
I’m on the perennial hunt for the artistically unexpected.
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Maximalist Minimalism
The Wooster Group makes an art out of wielding a minimalistic approach for maximal and maximalist effect.
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The Fuccbois in the Band
The same joke, an ocean away:
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Once Upon a (good?!) Projection
Projections are a necessary evil in the theater world.
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Mr. Every Night
When an uber fan wants to preach the gospel of Broadway, they tend to focus on the best shows Broadway has to offer.
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