and the 🐈🐈🐈 today?

"i actually dont like seeing exceptional actors talent and skills being wasted on mediocre random programming that is trying to second guess what an audience wants rather than what a play needs."

today in pocket theatre, i write abt stars. open.substack.com/pub/csvich/p...

"Culture isnt just content. Its whether we still have conditions where ppl can actually share time together in a meaningful way. Ppl still crave being together but the forms we get offered are thinner, more humiliating, more disposable." -- Jiarui Wang. (my student. proud teacher here)

thinking abt how Capital letters are seen as Power while capitalism and colonialism continue to choke the many

Imagine sitting across from Billy Wilder & telling him you took notes from a robot. Not a real producer, not even a stupid producer in a bathrobe. A robot. He might actually murder you.

dear theatre, reality 2.0 is using you when it is reality 1.0 that needs you

dear theatre, not ready

@stuhennigan.bsky.social enjoyed reading your piece Keshed!

fantastic interview with Tony Kushner. read.

'Latinidad in Musical Theatre' by Stefan Sittig offers an accessible exploration of Latine artists' substantial contribution to the last century of the American Musical. Out now: https://bit.ly/46liXVL

A new song by Mack Barnhardt on the 6 million US children with #Longcovid. youtu.be/yY59N515-jY

dear theatre, in dreams

R.I.P. Éliane Radigue, one of the most innovative and radical composers of our century- if you haven’t heard her music yet, prepare for something simultaneously delicate and oceanic. I don’t love the word “genius” but she deserves it.

Radigue. a giant in music. one of the best to ever do it.

dear theatre, hmm

thinking abt how brilliant Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall are in PETER HUJAR'S DAY.

the more denialism abt preventable harms there is, the more no tomorrow there is

1. Very important study - and the primary reason I avoid infection. 'The long-term impact of COVID-19 may be consequential years after the infection and give rise to long-term illnesses including neurocognitive problems similar to what is seen in Alzheimer's disease'.

dear theatre, where or when

when a director, after working on your play, tells you no one will ever do it...

Andre Gregory on why he rehearses for so long.

when an actor in a film shows you how much he is acting...

dear theatre, all over the place

mourning the passing of musician Willie Colon. salsa music as we know it wouldn't be what it is without his integral place in its formation. legend.

when a theatre review of a new play never mentions the writer of the play by name

y los 🐈🐈🐈 today?

dear theatre, ways to go

dear Chicago theatre pals, my play 12 OPHELIAS runs at Strawdog Theatre this spring! ♥️

Get this noted down ✍️ Unlimited Theatre are reopening their unAwards for one last time to offer 2 more unLab awards for companies of Artists to retreat, reimagine, and think about their future! Applications will open Monday 23rd Feb. unlimited.earth/unawards/ Get involved!

"it was called selling out once. now its just the way it mostly is. the synthetic era - in these new dark ages - wants the artist as product, as brand, as a category that can be addressed easily. even the so-called transgressive artists are in on it." -- Caridad Svich, "feeding the censor"

dear theatre, when

waiting patiently for theatre workers to realize cvd is a labor rights issue.

and if you havent seen Tom Noonan's film WHAT HAPPENED WAS... oh, please do. in his memory. its a brilliant film.

"upon whose bodies (hearts and minds) will unsafe workspaces be sacrificed? for the sake of 'radical' optics? upon whose labor will the censor mark its stain?"

mourning the passing of actor and filmmaker Tom Noonan. uncanny talent, rare and precise.

i miss Coney, dear theatre

old enough to remember when National Theatre Scotland, Pitlochry, Traverse streamed shows.

today in pocket theatre, i write abt feeding the censor. open.substack.com/pub/csvich/p...

mourning the passing of Jesse Jackson. a force to be reckoned with.

yet another effing on person only community wellness and healing theatre event that ignores ongoing reality 1.0

a swell of community care plays and musicals that continue to ignore ongoing reality 1.0

thinking abt Diane Keaton and Robert Duvall. both Meisner trained. exemplary. @wychstreet.bsky.social am i right that Jeff Goldblum is also Meisner trained? any in the new generation? l hear less abt Meisner now.

old enough to remember when @goodmantheatre.bsky.social streamed archival productions on demand and even live streamed too. and ppl were happy to pay for an affordable digital ticket from anywhere in the US

LCT is in one way a Broadway theater, and Mr. Henry is terrific. It is also a not-for-profit, and should probably not have tickets ranging from $146 to $301, which are not affordable to most working people, whose taxes go to support the theater.

‘So much talent comes from the base of poverty and those in the margins. You limit the base, you miss too much talent’ Jesse Jackson (1941-2026)

old enough to remember when International Theater Amsterdam was live streaming productions

theatre workers taking 'quick' airplane trips for business meetings also accelerates the climate crisis

five years of unabated recklessness, and organized abandonment in the Great Derangement

happy year of the horse