The ending of Richard Nelson’s When the Hurlyburly’s Done is proof positive of how applying auteur theory can alter analysis of the auteur’s individual works.
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Tag: New York City Serenades
Mount ABBA
My incontrovertibly, irrefutably, undeniably, objectively correct Mount Rushmore of ABBA bangers:
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Size Up
The New York Times’ review of The Brothers Size bumps up against the porous border between objective journalism and subjective interpretation.
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Take a Dink
If an artist benefits from making art about an underrepresented group, should said artist try to use the rest of their career to benefit said group?
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Rock the Boat
The exact same play can land differently on either side of the pond.
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The Keep and the Fly
Why is the barkeep the sole character not to tell a ghost story in The Weir?
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Faw lty
Let’s play another round of “why does this production have an intermission?”
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Joy Over Oy
The stage — especially in a musical — is uniquely positioned to showcase the importance of Joy Mangano’s Miracle Mop.
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Youthanasia
When doing what you love is a form of suicide.
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Janet and Bruce
Welcome to the second installment of Write All Nite’s “Pulling a [Name]” series.
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