#theater criticism

[newyorkthegoldenage]

"I feel so guilty enjoying it after what Brooks Atkinson said."

Cartoon by Perry Barlow for the November 15, 1941 issue of The New Yorker. Brooks Atkinson was the theater critic of the New York Times and, even in those days when there were many more newspapers than there are now, the most powerful.

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[spongebobssquarepants]

[marisatomay]

sorry to lose my mind at this but ohhhhhh my god have you never been to a theater before is this baby’s first time out of doors if you don’t know that you can absolutely take the popcorn bucket you have purchased what else on god’s somewhat green earth do you also not know about Being Somewhere That Isn’t Your House

[essektheylyss]

you can ensure your local punk has adequate enrichment by signing them up to rig a mediocre community theater production every so often

[randomalistic]

Wait you guys are actually buying Disney products I thought it was a joke

(READ TAGS FOR FULL CONTEXT Sorry it’s long dies

[undead-knick-knack]

This idea popped into my head and I couldn't let it go, enjoy

[thefandomentals]

Guest writer Gena begins a deep dive into Moonward by chatting with the @midstpodcast trio about creative collaboration, new mediums for character exploration, and the "Whoa Dude" of it all.

[black-is-beautiful18]

So y’all are mad at Cynthia Erivo for calling out the use of AI/altering her image as if she’s not a Black woman and when y’all have literally been the problem from day 1??? Cuz the north remembers how y’all complained when Black fans were fancasting Black actresses to play not only Elphaba but Glinda as well. As if Wicked, the book and the musical, aren’t an allegory for racism and discrimination. We also remember how y’all were going around basically saying that there’s no way they could properly make her skin green cuz she’s a dark skinned woman so it would be best to recast her with someone lighter. We also remember you have constantly excluded her from your talks of Wicked as if she’s not the main character. You’ve also discredited her talent. This is not a production of Wicked that’s meant for the stage. It’s meant for the movie theater. That poster was NEVER going to be accurate because it is Cynthia and Ariana who are the faces of the movies unlike staged productions where anyone, not really, can play the characters and the story is told over and over again. And to expect Cynthia not to add her own flair to Elphaba like with her nails and hair is just dumb on y’all’s part. Not everyone wants to wear a red lip. Like be fr and shut up.

[yashley]

fearne: it's been a long time since you've felt a woman's touch

ashley, quietly: where am I going with this stuff..

[dearest-sparksandstars]

HAPPY SEASON TWO DAY!

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I hate to be that person bc celebrating myself is hard but this also got featured as the header in this week’s fanart gallery and I’m freaking out so go check that out pls! AND GO WATCH SEASON TWO TONIGHT CRITTERS!!!

[pocketgalaxies]

mammoth!jester seeing beau get eaten by a monster and screaming and running over and stomping the shit out of the monster's baby and then running over to caleb and stomping petulantly at the ground to try and get him to un-polymorph her so that she can get to beau

[konakoro]

Public: There's no good movies in theaters right now, there's nothing to see :(

Me: (aggressively pushing Lisa Frankenstein into their faces) IT'S AN ORIGINAL SCRIPT. IT'S GOT CUTE CHEMISTRY BETWEEN THE LEADS. THE ACTING IS SUPERB AND SO FUN. THERE'S PRACTICAL EFFECTS AND ACTUAL SETS. IT'S PACING MAKES IT A BREEZE. I SWEAR IF YOU ASSHOLES MAKE ANOTHER DIABLO CODY HORROR COMEDY FLOP I WILL GO FULL JOKER

[elliesgaymachete]

Beau: I have +16 arcana

Caleb:

[thealogie]

obviously the NYT's biggest crime is tacitly covering up a genocide and peddling zionist propaganda but it cannot be overstated how much they've just generally deteriorated in quality in the past few years. I remember everyone around me cancelled their subscriptions in 2014 during their last little dabble with zionist propaganda, but then they kind of won everyone back 2014-2018 and then we got "are trans people the devil" and now they can't even support centrist democrats (which should be their bread and butter) they're like: "are democrats actually excited by kamala harris"

[astrobei]

just watched wicked i think the only possible improvement would be if they kissed on the mouth

[beedreamscape]

I have my reservations with any potential Calamity adaptation - mostly bc my expectations will be sky high and second bc of the gatekeeper in my heart - but it makes me smile to think of having Brennan cameos like we have little Matts in TLOVM