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Theater Analysis
Essays on and analyses of plays and musicals.
The Steve Bias
Theater analysis: Observing the suspicious amounts of successful Steves in musical theater.
Edmund W.
Jan 27, 20253 min read
"Ladies Who Lunch": A Phonological Breakdown
Theater analysis looking at the sound patterns in Company's "Ladies Who Lunch."
Edmund W.
Jan 20, 20254 min read
August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson"
Review of "The Piano Lesson" by August Wilson.
Edmund W.
Jan 20, 20253 min read
Assonance by Lin-Manuel Miranda
Lin-Manuel Miranda is the most esteemed musical theater writer of this century. Earning a Pulitzer Prize and a handful of Tonys, Miranda...
Edmund W.
Jan 16, 20258 min read
La Cage aux Folles vs A Strange Loop
In the summer of 2024, I had the pleasure of watching Broadway’s first openly gay musical, La Cage aux Folles , and its most recent...
Edmund W.
Jan 16, 20256 min read
G-dropping in Spring Awakening
G-dropping is a phenomenon in which the -ing suffix is realized as -in' . When we say something like "walkin'" instead of "walking," for...
Edmund W.
Jan 15, 20251 min read
Accents in Musical Theater
A deep dive into the use of accents in English-written musicals set in non-English-speaking countries.
Edmund W.
Jan 10, 202516 min read
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