This past year, my playwriting teacher required every student to fill a shoebox with items that were inspirations or resources for their current plays. She referred to this shoebox as our playwriting altar. It was a place we could turn to if we were feeling stuck or uninspired or confused about our work. These shoeboxes […]
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Last summer, I found a production of Les Miserables that was playing in Texas. Usually, this would not strike me as particularly intriguing, but this production was different. It was Les Mis, immersive theatre style. Immersive theatre is super popular right now. Dave Malloy’s Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 set a sliver […]
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With the Tony Awards coming up this week, I am entirely on Team Fun Home. In my opinion, this musical has changed what is possible to stage on Broadway, and I cannot think of a better candidate for the title of “Best Musical.” I saw the musical both at the Public in January of 2014 […]
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Summer is a magical time of warmth and sunshine where theatre festivals pop up like daisies, and when I actually have time to go on road trips to remote (or not so remote) areas to see performances. In case you were looking for exciting summer theatre to put on your own calendar, here are a few […]
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If I have learned anything from my time studying Theatre, it’s that musical theatre rarely receives the amount of respect from academia that it deserves. Usually, musicals are blindly labeled “spectacles” and Broadway is given the sort of wide berth that Mufasa orders Simba to give the Shadowlands. Or at least that is what I […]
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So, I am ridiculously fortunate to be currently studying Playwriting for the second semester in a row with Quiara Alegría Hudes. She won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for her play Water by the Spoonful, wrote the book for In the Heights, and happens to be a truly lovely human being who writes the most beautiful […]
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I’ve recently found my new favorite musical theatre song. And by recently, I really mean that I first listened to this song about four weeks ago, and I’ve had it on repeat ever since. What could this fabulous piece of music possibly be? Why, it is “Waving Through a Window” from the new musical Dear […]
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