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Washington Post
19 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
The ‘Wrinkle in Time' musical is a daring, baffling spectacle
'Clarity,' a witchy guardian angel sings in the new musical 'A Wrinkle in Time,' 'is overrated in matters of great works of art.' Madeleine L'Engle would no doubt agree. The world premiere adaptation of the author's peculiar sci-fi classic requires significant suspension of the prefrontal cortex, which is by no means a knock on its daring approach. (More than one audience member joked after a recent performance about how it would pair with an edible.) The boldly imaginative production from director Lee Sunday Evans features several awesome moments like nothing you've seen before onstage — uncanny, ethereal and totally gaga.
The Verge
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Verge
May 22, 2025 at 2:29 PM EDT
'Recurring Screens.' In poet Nora Claire Miller's short, moving essay, she draws a line from the very first screensaver (SCRNSAVE, 1983) to the tesseract in A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'Engle, 1962) to her family's flight during the Holocaust (Austria, 1938). I particularly loved this bit about taking apart her grandmother's iMac: I took the Strawberry apart thirty-nine times. (I kept count.) I didn't really know what I was doing. I cut my hands open on the logic board more than once. There's still dried blood on the hard drive. But despite my best efforts at modernization, the Strawberry has refused to accept any of my updates. It only wants to exist in 1999, to connect to an old internet that hardly exists anymore. These days it mostly runs screen savers. Warp is still my favorite.
