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Zelda Knapp
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she/her. Writer, lapsed actor, theater junkie. Author: This Is What They Made It Out Of. Founder: The Knapp Nap Institute of Napping.
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Last week I saw Encores!'s The Light in the Piazza. Here's what I thought: https://aworkunfinishing.blogspot.com/2023/06/weekly-margin-2023-w26-light-in-piazza.html
A Korean woman in smart blue dress suit (tea-length skirt, 1950s era) stands in the foreground; in the background are a group of people standing in silhouette among pillars; one of the silhouettes wears a bridal veil. [Photo: Ruthie Ann Miles as Margaret with the cast of The Light in the Piazza. Photo by Joan Marcus]
June 26, 2023 at 1:48 PM
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My review of The Trouble With Dead Boyfriends: https://aworkunfinishing.blogspot.com/2023/06/margin-notes-trouble-with-dead.html
Foreground: a man in a letterman jacket, facedown on the ground. Background: a white teen girl in a cheerleading uniform sits in an amusement park car and stares at him in horror. [Zoe Dean and Patrick Voss Davis as Madison and Zachary. Photo by Sean Salamon]
June 18, 2023 at 2:32 PM
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Last week I saw Walking With Bubbles and Days of Wine and Roses. Here's what I thought: https://aworkunfinishing.blogspot.com/2023/06/weekly-margin-2023-w24-walking-with.html
Against a black background, in harsh side-lighting, a white man and woman are almost embracing, but for the tumbler of gin in her hand, and his face turning away from a kiss. [Photo: Kelli O'Hara and Brian d'Arcy James as Kirsten and Joe in Days of Wine and Roses. Photo by Ahron R. Foster]
June 12, 2023 at 1:34 PM
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You asked for it! My annually incorrect Tony prediction post: https://aworkunfinishing.blogspot.com/2023/06/my-dedicatedly-inaccurate-tony.html
A crowd of people wearing ice skates and cone-shaped party hats pose for a group selfie. [The cast of Kimberly Akimbo. Photo by Joan Marcus]
June 6, 2023 at 1:24 PM
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Last week I saw Being Mr. Wickham. Here's what I thought: https://aworkunfinishing.blogspot.com/2023/06/weekly-margin-2023-w23-being-mr-wickham.html
Adrian Lukis as George Wickham. Photo by James Findlay. Image: a white man in his sixties, with muttonchop sideburns and in early Victorian Era wardrobe, looks up and to the left, as cigar smoke wafts around behind him.
June 5, 2023 at 4:17 PM
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Last week I finished out the season with Prima Facie, Shucked, and Summer, 1976. Here's what I thought: https://aworkunfinishing.blogspot.com/2023/05/weekly-margin-2023-w22-prima-facie.html
Photo of a white woman in white button down shirt and black blazer, one hand on a wooden desk with a green-shaded table lamp, and the other hand pointing out and away from her. Photo credit: Helen Murray, of actor Jodie Comer in Prima Facie.
May 30, 2023 at 1:19 PM