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When Robin Williams & Steve Martin Starred in Samuel Beckett’s Waiting For...
Despite the dourest demeanor in literary history and a series of plays and novels set in the bleakest of conditions, there’s no doubt that Samuel Beckett was foremost a comic writer. Indeed, it is...
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Actor Margaret Colin (VEEP, Independence Day) Joins Pretty Much Pop #28 to...
http://podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/partiallyexaminedlife/PMP_028_12-12-20.mp3 What’s the deal with images of powerful women in media? The trope of the tough-as-nails boss-lady who...
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Live Performers Now Streaming Shows, from their Homes to Yours: Neil Young,...
You’ve always read books in the comfort of your own home. Though it may not be the full cinematic experience, you can also watch films there, in a pinch. Now that such a pinch has come, in the form of...
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Watch Full Productions of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Musicals, Streaming Free...
Writer and theatermaker Nicholas Berger’s recent polemic, “The Forgotten Art of Assembly: Or, Why Theatre Makers Should Stop Making,” touched a whole plexus of nerves, by positing that the frantic...
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Watch Free Plays from Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre: Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth &...
As depressing articles about the upcoming Summer of COVID-19 begin to proliferate, our hopes for beach days, concert series, and summer camp begin to dim. Here in New York City, the Public Theater’s...
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The Muppets Sing the First & Second Acts of Hamilton
Or, at least it’s one fine impression of the Muppets. Here’s the cast and find Act II down below: Alexander Hamilton – Kermit the Frog Aaron Burr – The Great Gonzo Eliza Schuyler – Miss Piggy Marquis...
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Lin-Manuel Miranda Breaks Down How He Wrote Hamilton‘s Big Hit, “My Shot”
The current moment has forced the original cast and crew of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s massive hit musical Hamilton to revisit and reevaluate the story it tells about America’s founding. As Miranda himself...
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Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #53 Explores the Hamilton Phenomenon
https://podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/partiallyexaminedlife/PMP_053_7-10-20.mp3 Your hosts Erica Spyres, Mark Linsenmayer, and Brian Hirt are joined by Broadway actor Sam...
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Watch the Opening Credits of an Imaginary 70s Cop Show That Stars Samuel Beckett
Samuel Beckett: avant-garde dramatist, brooding Nobel Prize winner, poet, and…gritty television detective? Sadly, no, but he had the makings of a great one, at least as cut together by playwright...
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David Byrne’s American Utopia: A Sneak Preview of Spike Lee’s New Concert Film
First came the album and tour in 2018. Then the Broadway show in 2019. And now the latest incarnation of David Byrne’s American Utopia–the concert film directed by Spike Lee. Debuting on HBO Max on...
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When Edward Gorey Created Set Designs & Tony Award-Winning Costumes for a...
Edward Gorey and Halloween go together as well as Dracula and Halloween. Bring the three together (well, it’s almost Halloween), and you’ve got a triumvirate of classic, wicked, scary fun. The...
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When ABBA Wrote Music for the Cold War-Themed Musical, Chess: “One of the...
Chess is amazing. The simplicity of its characters and plot (capture the king!) can be appreciated and understood by children; the complexity of its tactics can consume an adult life. Despite its...
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Lou Reed Concert Film Berlin Streaming Free Online for the Next Week
Last laughs can be sweet, and according to music journalist, Anthony DeCurtis, his friend, the late Lou Reed, “reveled” in the critical drubbing that greeted his 3rd solo album, 1973’s Berlin. Not...
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The Airline Toilets Theatre Company: Watch One Man Stage Comical Shows in...
When COVID 19 struck, theater lovers were faced with a choice. Let go entirely, or expand our definitions of what constitutes “theater.” We’ve had 14 months to get used to the idea of performances...
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An Introduction to Japanese Kabuki Theatre, Featuring 20th-Century Masters of...
The English language has adopted kabuki as an adjective, applied to situations where exaggerated appearances and performances are everything. Business, politics, media: name any realm of modernity,...
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The “West Side Story” Story — Pretty Much Pop: A Culture Podcast #114
https://podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/partiallyexaminedlife/PMP_114_1-10-22.mp3 Did it make sense for Steven Spielberg to remake one of our nation’s most beloved musicals...
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Watch Sir Ian McKellen’s 1979 Master Class on Macbeth’s Final Monologue
If only we could have had a teacher as insightful as Sir Ian McKellen explain some Shakespeare to us at an impressionable age. Above, a 38-year-old McKellen breaks down Macbeth’s famous final...
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Hayao Miyazaki’s My Neighbor Totoro Is Getting Adapted for the Stage by The...
The films of Hayao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli have won immense worldwide acclaim, in large part because they so fully inhabit their medium. Their characters, their stories, their worlds: all can come...
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The German Cast of Hamilton Sings the Title Track, “Alexander Hamilton” in...
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton is coming to Hamburg in October 2022. And this video gives audiences a taste of what awaits them: The title track “Alexander Hamilton” sung in German. Enjoy… If you would...
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The Art of Translating Hamilton into German: “So Kribbeln Schmetterlinge,...
The city of Hamburg’s nickname is Tor zur Welt– the gateway to the world. If the German language production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s record breaking hiphop musical now in previews in that city’s St....
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