In form, "Hair" remains a triumphant fusion of musical theater elements, as long as spoken passages are minimized.
Performances had started to smack of religious ritual and Orientalist theater, elements of which remain active in Ms. Abramovic's performances since she resumed her solo career.
Wagner describes Heathcote's techniques of distilling theater elements for the purpose of creating dynamic, dramatic situations in which learning, through experience, can take place.
The troupe began as a dance company that added theater elements, and "now we make plays that look like dances," says Hickok, whose dance experience includes folk, flamenco, Japanese, and Georgian.
But while the play has intelligence and keen observations on the human condition, it generally lacks the usual theater elements of dramatic build and literary artistry.
In the real theater world, elements like credibility, consistency and just a dab of polish actually matter.
On Saturday at the Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater, all elements of that formula were in place, including Herman Cornejo of American Ballet Theater.
The structure of theater, the elements of staging the play, are the movie's skeleton.
Riggan Thomson (Michael Keaton), face of the action movie franchise Birdman, seeks to be relevant again by directing and starring in his Broadway adaptation of Raymond Carver's short story "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love". The structure of theater, the elements of staging the play, are the movie's skeleton.
