Monday, January 06, 2020
The 2010s in Theater: Spidey, Hamilton, Gatz, and Much More
www.vulture.com: Trying to sort the last ten years into some kind of cycle, some sort of neatly designated Age, has been driving me loopy. Are there trends in our plays? Sure. Does the theater hold a mirror up to nature? Of course. Yet while nature herself shifts from the meandering Holocene into the smash-and-grab Anthropocene, some things are still so slow to change
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This is the most interesting “a look at the past decade” article I have read yet. So many articles about theatre of the last decade just list what shows won every Tony for 10 years. But this article is about so much more. It talks about theatre locations, people, the role of theatre in society, shows that were never on Broadway, and so much more. I really appreciate this article because it isn’t just a look back at what happened in the past decade, it is a comparison and a description of how things have changed and why. I heard about shows and theatres reading this article that I had never heard of before which was cool to learn about. The show that was mentioned that I would really like to see the most was Gatz. The way the author talks about as being 6 hours long in contrast to the 70-minute-long Constellations was very interesting. I really wish I had seen this show. I would love to see how a show that was 6 hours long was so successful in a decade when everything else seemed to be getting shorter. The most interesting part of this article for me is the last paragraph where the author offers a lot of questions about theatre that I think we should all consider going into the future of this industry.
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