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No. 97 Big Little Lies & Avenue Q
I yelled at Witherspoon's character about artistic freedom. The Big Little Lies storyline of the city officials not wanting Avenue Q...
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Jul 27, 20191 min read
No. 95 Slow Down & Be Curious
I’m trying a bit of a new format with my blog. I have so much I want to share and only so much time in the week. So, for now, with each...
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Jul 4, 20191 min read
The Idris Elba & Tree Controversy
"Let's collaborate to drive positive change for female writers in theatre." -- Burning Bright Website According to the BBC: Tori...
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Jun 29, 20192 min read
No. 90 Intimacy Direction
Romance and Passion - We All Love to Watch “Maybe strippers get real used to it,” she said recently in her dressing room at the...
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Jun 28, 20192 min read
No. 89 Samuel Beckett Walks Into A Bar
Beckett’s relationship with his mother (as with his Mother Country) was close and combative. She was a formidable woman, and however far...
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Jun 21, 20192 min read
No. 85 Sleep as a Theatrical - Political Act
Next to my own skin, her pearls. My mistress bids me wear them, warm them, until evening when I'll brush her hair. -- from Warming Her...
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May 28, 20191 min read
#79 A Reckoning for Non-Equity Theatre Companies
Vigilance | Professionalism | Respect | Trust | Transparency | Awareness Until the #MeToo movement, I had cynically assumed that to rid...
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Apr 20, 20192 min read
Verdon/Fosse
“I never thought of him, when we were working, as my husband. Judy Garland came backstage one time, and she said, oh, your husband's done...
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Apr 12, 20193 min read
Being a Female Dramaturg Was Not Always a Picnic
A Tale of Two Women Actor Heidi Schreck, Dramaturg Sarah Lunni working on the Broadway hit What the Constitution Means to Me. At the end...
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Mar 29, 20191 min read
No. 63 Be Uncomfortable
This is a Happening. PBS Digital Studios' program The Art Assignment presents THE CASE FOR PERFORMANCE ART. This short video is a quick...
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Mar 25, 20192 min read
Happy Birthday, Alien!
"Micro changes in air density, my ass." -- Ripley The classic auteur horror film Alien turns 40 next month and with this birthday comes a...
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Mar 21, 20192 min read
Overthinking Your Audition
“Have some questions; make some decisions and be ready to change them.” English actor, director, National Campaign for the Arts chair,...
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Mar 8, 20191 min read
Theatre Critic Helen Shaw Can Write
"In Harris’s cleverest dramaturgical gesture, the old shorthand for innocence is changed: the melodramatic heroine’s blushing whiteness...
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Mar 6, 20191 min read
The Cast Photo We Need to See
For my future artistic endeavors, I am driven by my desire to do good with what I do well -- THEATRE. This photo by Ingrid Pollard for...
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Feb 27, 20193 min read
No. 44 A Stirring Opening
To those actors and actresses, designers, directors, playwrights and theatre technicians who as artists or students (and often in both...
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Feb 26, 20191 min read
Twitter Thread from a Sage Playwright
Lauren Gunderson (@LaLaTellsaStory) is the most produced playwright in America. She doled out some wise advice on Twitter this week about...
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Feb 25, 20192 min read
Inventor of Gaffer Tape has Died
"Gaffer tape (also known as gaffer's tape or gaff tape as well as spike tape for narrow, colored gaffer tape) is a heavy cotton cloth...
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Feb 14, 20192 min read
Ian McKellen Came Home with Me
“Welcome to Acting Shakespeare.” -- Ian McKellen I got so much good out of watching the new documentary McKellen: Playing the Part. It...
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Feb 12, 20192 min read
A Reading of Lynn Nottage's SWEAT
There is a fantastic immediacy and rawness that happens to a room when a play is being read out loud. There is nothing between the...
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Feb 2, 20193 min read
No. 21 Shurtleff's Thirteen
Part One: The “I’m Okay, You’re Screwed Up” Approach. "Happy to see this on display. Best acting book ever! --- Patron In an interview...
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