After words blogs

BLOG: Red Eye New Works- from the inside.

Posted Jun. 17

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One theater artist shares what it's like to be on the inside and outside of a project.

BLOG: CTC's Annie is the greatest show ever. Just ask my daughter.

Posted Jun. 14

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The show elements really didn't matter. Not to the real audience.

BLOG: An awful eloquent juxtaposition

Posted May. 9

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I need theatre to yank me out my humdrum-ness and toss me some place I don’t necessarily want to be and then make me glad I paid for the privilege.

BLOG: Disturbing. And fun?

Posted Sep. 16

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"The Scottsboro Boys" presents a horrible incident in American history as a jaunty musical. Can you enjoy it and still feel good about yourself?

BLOG: More Mad King Thomas

Posted Jun. 21

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How is Mad King Thomas connected to Judy Blume? Laura Holway explains, with a second perspective on their show. Discuss.

BLOG: That flickering tongue

Posted Jun. 21

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The Mad King Thomas show at Bedlam last weekend blew Ben McGinley's mind. Discuss. Warning: This post contains a helluva lot of sexual imagery.

BLOG: Is compassion inherently theatrical?

Posted May. 30

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Go see "Circle Mirror Transformation." Read the author's note in the program. If it surprises you, stop doing theater.

BLOG: Lost narratives

Posted May. 26

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All this talk about the television show "Lost" motivates me to consider some of my own recent reviews. In public. Have mercy on my soul.

BLOG: Who's afraid of Edward Albee?

Posted May. 22

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The Jungle Theater's production of ". . . Virginia Woolf" was amazing. Yet it also made me wonder whether the generation gap is more real than I thought.

BLOG: The greatest generation that ain't

Posted Mar. 17

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It's dramatic and melodramatic. It's theatrical and cinematic. It's been praised to the heavens. But what is "August: Osage County" actually about?

BLOG: Relevance 'n' roll

Posted Feb. 7

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I don't care whether or not "Rock 'n' Roll" was a great production of a great play. I want to talk about the ideas in it. Why does that seem so weird?

BLOG: Newness, audience, and culture in the studio

Posted Jan. 20

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Does Fringe Festival work translate for the Guthrie audience? Why is new work so much more exciting than well-done classics? How do we understand originality?

BLOG: Enda, not Edna

Posted Nov. 5

After words | Vision

What do you get when you put three Irishmen in a room together talking about storytelling? Anna Sundberg's Nerd Cloud Nine.

BLOG: What is this section?

Posted Nov. 1

After words | Criticism

Good theater is supposed to travel with the audience wherever they go afterward. Reviews don't cover that; we do.

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