‘Cupcake Wars’ Meets ‘King Lear,’ and Designers Meet Each Other
1812 Productions didn’t just come up with a way to collaborate with designers on mini-stagings of ‘King Lear’ during the pandemic—they also turned it into a bake-off-style web series.
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1812 Productions didn’t just come up with a way to collaborate with designers on mini-stagings of ‘King Lear’ during the pandemic—they also turned it into a bake-off-style web series.
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