The specific counters of a theater’s building can inform a production’s staging choices.
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Not So Wonderful
Is Wonderful World Broadway’s crossing-the-Rubicon moment for the use of projections?
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Voyage
Watching The 7th Voyage of Egon Tichy [redux] can feel like a crazy-making experience, befitting a play about a man driven to-infinity-and-beyond his wits’ end.
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DIY
It’s always a gas to track overlaps between Under the Radar productions.
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Eureka I Am Finding It
Memorizing lines is considered a bedrock of stage acting.
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Wait What’s Wet?
Teeth’s songs skip the typical foreplay of showtunes, opting instead to immediately begin with lyrical shocks to the system.
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Until the Wheels Fall Off
On the stereotypical spectrum of high-school cliques, the jocks would be at one end, and the theater kids would be on the very opposite other side.
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Under the Fan
Read no further unless you saw Shit. Meet. Fan. at MCC.
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With A Quickness
This season’s revivals of Our Town and King Lear cut swaths from their original texts in order to emphasize a shared theme.
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Cirque du Theater
If you’ve seen a few Cirque du Soleil productions — or any circus, really — then the acts in Yuletide Factory won’t seem particularly revelatory.
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