Happy International Stage Manager Day to all stage managers!
Now how about we all stop bothering them with show stuff (& especially minor show stuff) on their days off?
If ever there comes a day when the question is ice cream and my answer is no, then please feel no qualms about leaving me behind because the me you knew and loved will be truly dead gone
Israeli food truck expelled from an immigrant-owned event in Philly due to threats of violence. Notice how they word it—it sounds like justice. It sounds like inclusivity and openness. This is how antisemitism becomes mainstream, but the majority of our community remains silent.
🚨On May 20th at approx. 6 PM, this individual displayed an explosive device, while riding in the back of a pickup truck, in the vicinity of 37 W. 47th St., and threw the device, which detonated and caused burns to a 55 year-old-female. Do you know him?☎️1-800-577-TIPS.
If you don't support regional and off-Broadway theater I don't want your threads/thinkpieces about what Broadway "should be" artistically. What you're craving ALREADY EXISTS, support it already!!
@donovanlockett I just started rewatching New Girl, and I was like, “oh there’s seven seasons, but I’m already six episodes into the first season? I’m almost onto the next one!” Nope. There’s 20+ episodes/season and I am not prepared for this.
@skchgo There are numerous studying confirming that shaming does NOT work and that empathy and listening to concerns actually has the highest conversion vaccination rates. Shame is a tool of oppression - it will never be a tool for social justice (or public health).
THE THEATER INDUSTRY HAS NOT BEEN DORMANT FOR 14 MONTHS. A few shows in one area of NYC have been dormant. I am SO TIRED of this narrative, which erases the overwhelming labor, organizing, creativity, & adaptation that has actually characterized these past 14 months.
When I was a 10 or 11, my cousin told me he had a jar that could catch sunlight. I wanted one so bad that I decided to make one. I wrapped a mason jar in electrical tape took it outside, opened it for a while & sealed it real tight.
I took it to my room, cut off the light...