Adored Dorian Gray directed brilliantly by Kip Williams and tour de force’d by Sarah Snook. Alas, another ignorant misogyny-laced Jesse Green review 1. review the production and not the 1 in your own wee mind & 2. Please don’t compare Wilde to Chekhov, and Snook to Andrew Scott. Do you only see men?

Impeach Schumer.

AOC, please primary Chuck Schumer. I can’t believe he is voting for the republican bill. We need Democrats with courage and the ability to resist. Not collaborate. Put Schumer Out to Pasture. Call or email his offices please.

www.schumer.senate.gov/contact WTF Schumer. Do not vote for cloture or vote for the CR. It is not time to cozy up to Republicans. PLEASE CONTACT CHUCK.

Is Chuck Schumer a senator or serving in the Judenrat in the ghetto? Collaborating with nazis?! Please contact Schumer and Urge him to find his courage and vote NO and let the government close. He needs to be primaried.

Just realizing I’ve been to every province in Canada.

Please Canada: annex us.

We may need to do a national bake sale for Ukraine.

So all who voted for Republicans: When WWIII breaks out, the cost of eggs is gonna be hella expensive.

I am thinking of how effectively French truck drivers on strike blocked all the exits on the borders when I was driving to Switzerland in 1993(?) I cursed them at the time, but now I am thankful for the modeling. Let’s all emulate the French.

Summon our inner Ravens, the tricksters, in this time. We do not owe our honor, our truth and our obedience to evil. We owe honor and truth to our allies and ourselves. Fight dirty as resistance fighters did and do. I used to say I would smoke cigarettes if Philip Morris gave my playwrights money.

Dear artist-colleagues: the EO against DEI has been blocked, for now. That means the NEA cannot enforce Trump’s edict. Of course, the chilling effect is happening. Do Not Censor yourself. Institutions and artists who act from the moral center (& aesthetic necessity) of equity and inclusion apply!

having already been tackled by his neighbor, Senator Rand Paul does not fear karma in his encouragement to deny security protection to Dr. Fauci. Do senators get governmentally paid security protection? What should the policy be?

What terrifies me is Trump has pardoned his brown shirted thugs who are out now on the streets as he is denying protection to great Americans like Fauci. Is it possible to organize citizen patrols to guard our great Americans?

God help the Blue States. Farewell FEMA? We are already back to private fire companies. We are already kickstarting medical care and funerals. God help the Red States too. Did a sermon given by a woman about mercy provoke a child’s tantrum?

turns out, 3 women in DC have bigger balls than Reps in the senate: a bishop, and 2 senators from Maine and Alaska. Putting the abuse aside: what cowards enable an alcoholic to run the department of defense? Indefensible.

we’re in a time of neo-german/americanexpressionism. Feelings must override verisimilitude because no one is paying attention: do cockroaches dancing in Mother Play bother you? Or the fact that there is more humanity in roaches than landlords? Emilia Perez, Nickel Boys, Queer to me are recognizable.

here is a brief thought for those who hate Emilia Perez: how much have we drifted towards expecting verisimilitude in film and theatre? It is an aesthetic that creates a passive agreement with reactionary views of the real. Emilia Perez and Nickel Boys interrupts that aesthetic.

From the peanut gallery: I appreciate attention paid to Emilia Perez and Nickel Boys. I can’t get these movies out of my mind. Nickel Boys reverberates now with a character like Spencer in the White House. But I also regret the non-recognition of QUEER and particularly Daniel Craig’s performance.

Thank you Sen Lisa Murkowski.

Thank you Dr. Martin Luther King for giving us a moral compass to guide us in these dark days ahead.

I wanted to see some truth tonight. before the travesty/lies/hate accelerate. NICKEL BOYS. Devastating. Beautiful filmmaking. Incredible acting. The worms of white nationalist racism under the rock that is now turned over and taking the oath of office. Please see this film.

“And the gold she lay cold in their pockets And the sun she sets down on the trees And they thank the Lord For the land where they’re living Where the White Man does what he pleases…” Eric Taylor, Deadwood South Dakota (with great thanks to the extraordinary Nanci Griffith)

I am in a place where there are no radios, and no tv. Even so I know what time it is. Two more days of America. Two more days of a country I pledged allegiance to as a child.

when we pick up the pieces of our country and our government… could we please abolish the electoral college? Oh and ranked voting would be nice, too.

Merry Christmas Martini!

Seymour Indiana: among your immigrant neighbors, there is a messenger from the gods disguised as a poor person. Remember when you deport them: Your future for your town may not be a happy one. Thank you Gods for the incredible people you have sent to us and for myths we are given to guide us.

Life goes on Even after your old dog dies Even after she slept upon your legs And gave soulful looks As you ate delicious things that would kill her Now only the chocolate is left

Just watched Emilia Perez. Wow.

My Alice has left this earth. I can only hope that humans are afforded the same love and dignity upon our parting that we can give our dogs.

Are there enough dog, cat, otter, bird, sloth, donkey, cow, mule and (fill in the blank)____ photos to get me through the next four years?

O! And while I think of it: if you have students, please tell them about Bard at the Gate which is available on Broadway on Demand. I want to encourage people to teach from this archive of amazing new plays, beautifully acted and designed in a week—rehearsal to video.

for those who teach or like to add a little dramaturgy to your work, I’ve posted about bake-offs on my web www.paulavogelplaywright.com I will put others up on line

Today would've been Matthew Shepard's 48th Birthday. While we remember those we lost to AIDS, let's not forget those we lost to hate. #RememberMatthew #NOH8

so: neobundists are not zionists; We are secular, and concerned with all populations that are being oppressed. We believe in unions, collective action, making a better world in the countries we jews live in. We center on Here, and Now, not a future zion; we invest in culture,the arts and science.

time to become a neo-bundist.

this year a different thanksgiving as we gather: our circle of friends and family. Our first response team for the years ahead. The unspoken “I’ve got your back.” We are going to get through this together. And oh yes there’s turkey.

&I rejoice that WICKED (&HAMILTON) translate to more medias to assert the centrality of theatre in our culture. Theatre has been undermined since 1980 in funding &support by Republicans to contain the political subtexts that theatre delivers to audiences (like community, empathy, embracing others)

Here is why I am delighted by WICKED: I always believe that it is possible to pull off the Three Penny Opera phenomenon: a musical which criticizes society’s wrongs at the same time that the artist achieves a commercial boulevard hit. WICKED, HAMILTON, BARBIE-works built upon public myth.

To introduce myself: theatre is my social life. Theatre is my religion. And now Theatre is my country.

grateful for another day of rain. and tonight we saw WICKED and enjoyed it thoroughly.

Please lord, give Nancy Mace a really bad UTI so she can spend all of her time in the women’s bathroom.

Dear Democratic Representatives in the House: May I ask everyone to dress in cross-gender clothing to support Sarah McBride? And staffers as well? Choose a day and all should hit the floor.

every page is a whisper to future generations: We were here.

I am grateful for 10 years of research for INDECENT. The Chronicles of Lodz journaled daily activities in the ghetto: marriages, births, theatre, food, & petty inhumanities&triumphs. They focused on art to bolster community. The joy of singing Verdi to Nazi guards&Red Cross&each other. Let’s create.

Lol

A late blooming rose. Nov 16 2024. Remember the beauty.

I predict Hulk Hogan for the NEA.

It is amazing how much longer the day feels when I’ve turned the television off. Ahh.