WBEZ: Being funny and looking good aren’t mutually exclusive (see below), but they don’t always go together either. Just think of your high school boyfriend.
Most of these dance and theater shows were new—because to me, though original work can be downright awful, it can also pay off big-time. Seems like, once all the creative juices get flowing, they flow into every corner of the work. (And, as the Washington Post’s Peter Marks recently remarked, what stage artists are creating right now is “the true measure of a nation’s artistic vitality.”)
Two of these shows—candidates in both categories—are currently running: the Hypocrites’ remount of The Pirates of Penzance and the Neo-Futurists’ Burning Bluebeard. Actually, so is perennial favorite That’s Weird, Grandma.
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