Showing posts with label opinion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label opinion. Show all posts
Saturday, July 29, 2017

Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Casting Controversy of 2017

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Okieriete "Oak" Onaodowan as Pierre in Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812. What a mess. That's about the onl...
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Tuesday, July 7, 2015

The Advent of the Closely Timed Revival

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A scene from Deaf West's production of Spring Awakening, soon to transfer to Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theatre. Now that all ...
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Why "Hamilton's" Producers Made the Right Decision

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Lin-Manuel Miranda's sung through Hamilton is moving uptown this summer, ending weeks of speculations about when and how it would make...
Thursday, February 19, 2015

Hamilton and the "Not-For-Profit" Off-Broadway Theatre Scene

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This is as close as most of us will be able to get to Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda's much ballyhooed new musical about one of America...
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Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Matilda Just Recouped, and That's a Bad Thing

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The revolting children of Broadway's Matilda are officially in the black, which should make saving for their college funds significant...
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Thursday, December 4, 2014

A Premature Defense of "Peter Pan Live"

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Allison Williams gets all glammed up for NBC's Peter Pan Live! Last year, NBC took a gamble and tried something that hadn't be...
Wednesday, October 8, 2014

Union vs. Non-Union Tours and Equity's Image Problem

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Well, Actors' Equity just significantly raised the game in its crusade to combat non-equity tours. The union has begun the "Ask ...
Thursday, September 11, 2014

Broadway and the Burden of Unrealistic Expectations

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Tony-nominee Andrew Rannells dons Hedwig's wig and high heels through October 12th, at which point Michael C. Hall takes over. For...
Friday, August 8, 2014

Should Race Be a Selling Point?

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Norm Lewis made history as the first black Broadway Phantom when he joined the Broadway company of The Phantom of the Opera in May.  And w...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

A Reasoned Explanation of Why Some Shows Just Need to Close Already

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Sorry all you ABBA fans, but it's time for these "dancing queens" to retire. Last season turned out to be a pretty proli...
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Thursday, June 19, 2014

Why the Internet Needs to Calm Down About "Into the Woods"

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Meryl Streep will play the Witch in Disney's film adaptation of Into the Woods, and regardless of how much they change the material sh...
Friday, May 16, 2014

Who's to Blame for "Bridges" Early Closing?

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Steven Pasquale and Kelli O'Hara in the underappreciated (and soon to close) The Bridges of Madison County Jason Robert Brown'...
Tuesday, April 29, 2014

2014 Tony Nominations React

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Previous Tony-nominee Jonathan Groff and tenuously-connected-to-Broadway Lucy Liu announce the 2014 Tony Award nominations. They're...