The 2016 Overthinking It Holiday Gift Guide
Our gift guide for 2016, with great holiday gift recommendations from your friends at Overthinking It and a chance to support the site you love.
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Overthinking Theater
Quality Matters: On Cultural Success and Failure
Could it be that the main determinant of an artwork’s reception is whether or not it’s any good?
Horace and Pete are Sad: Why Should We Care?
On Saturday, Louis C.K. dropped a surprise American theatrical melodrama on all of us. Does it matter?
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This Is the Golden Age of TV Musicals and You’re Missing It
If someone sings a love ballad and no one tunes in, does it make a sound?
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Prisoner 24601’s Dilemma: Game Theory and “Les Misérables” [Think Tank]
The stirring drama of Les Misérables, as depicted by two-by-two game theory matrices.
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Contest! Win Tickets to Terminator Too: Judgment Play in NYC, August 11, 2012
Hey Overthinkers in the New York City Area! Do you share Lee’s obsession with Terminator? Do you enjoy farcical live-action adaptations of your favorite 90’s action movies? Do you want to see an audience member don assless chaps and play … Continued
An Interview with the Director of “Terminator Too: Judgment Play”
We’re a little obsessed with Terminator around here. Okay, when I say “we,” I mean mostly “Lee.” But we managed to find someone who’s taken Terminator fandom to an even higher level: Thomas Blake is the director of Terminator Too: … Continued
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Overthinking the “Rock of Ages” Logo Change, or, Why Readability Trumps Heavy Metal
What’s with the logo change? And why did the original logo look like a cross between AC/DC and Metallica’s logos, when neither of those bands’ songs were in the show?
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Underthinking it: Our Top 18 Shakespearean Porn Parody Titles
Not Safe For Ye Olde Worke.
The Great 90s Hip-Hop Jukebox Musical [Think Tank]
Overthinking It writes the great 90s Jukebox Musical, featuring East Coast vs. West Coast Hip-Hop.