Hunter Plummer

I have a PhD now. Weird.
Living every day like Tovah Feldshuh presenting at the Drama Desks Awards.

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And we all say, "Use me. Choose me."

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Very grateful for bootlegs and serendipitously timed productions for their help in the process.

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My article about HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH, Camp, the binarchy, and alternative casting choices is finally out.
https://t.co/jlxecR5AXI

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My questions are
1) What fell through that they can't announce the entire season?
2) When was the last time Arena Stage--a theater whose mission is "focused on American artists"--produced a show by a non-American writer?

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Arena Stage waiting until June to announce just half their season and it's two dance shows by one company, PRIMA FACIE, PURPOSE, and a Nikola Tesla musical? Yikes.

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Tell that to the New York Times

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New Research Discovery: if you move two letters in "Flatbush" you get "flab tush"

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Absolutely harrowing insight into what hell AI data centers are bringing to communities.
https://t.co/tYGKXLhJ69

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“Our system is designed for them to leave when their visit is over. Their visit should not function as the first step in the Green Card process”
Pure evil.
https://t.co/03oO0RtiLV

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Learned today that during my school's commencement, they were using some AI nonsense to read all the graduates' names, but it broke, so they had to have REAL HUMANS read the names like normal. Imagine! Humans! Reading names!

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And Israel stole yet another second place. We've got to end this.

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🇧🇬 BULGARIA is the winner of #Eurovision 2026!

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🇪🇸 RTVE has shared the following message as the #Eurovision 2026 grand final began.

The Spanish broadcaster has boycotted this year's edition and is not broadcasting tonight's show.

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Martin Green is an absolutely reprehensible human being and has destroyed Eurovision forever.

[Pablo O'Hana @PabloOHana]

My exclusive interview with Eurovision director Martin Green👇 He tells me:
💥Russia could return, even if the war in Ukraine is ongoing
💥No EBU discussion of a neutral Palestinian entry
💥No room for improvement in the way Israel debate was handled this year
💥Happy with every decision made this year
💥Invasion of another country is NOT grounds for exclusion from Eurovision

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Someone "loudly expressed their views" that genocide is bad, so the EBU kicked them out.

[Alex Marshall @alexmarshall81]

Eurovision statement on “Stop, stop, the genocide” chant heard during Israel performance. Chanter was close to a mic

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"The arrangement 'might appear to be rather bizarre.' But [...] not voting was 'the most democratic solution possible'" is the kind of shit a dictatorship says.

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🔹 EBU President Delphine Ernotte Cunci stated not directly voting on Israel's participation was *"the most democratic system possible"*; Belgian broadcaster VRT complained that the EBU was "hiding behind guidelines" rather than discussing human rights.

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The New York Times has investigated Israel's Eurovision campaign and the EBU's response. Findings include:

🔹2025 voting data was not fully investigated
🔸Broadcasters faced pressure from the EBU and Israeli diplomats
🔹EBU lawyers stated Israel could have been excluded in 2026

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🇪🇸 The New York Times has obtained the Spanish televoting percentages from the Eurovision 2025 Grand Final.

Israel received roughly one-third of the televote. According to the NYT, "It would have taken just a few hundred people, voting en masse, to secure [Israel]’s victory."

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"Take appropriate action where needed."
Yes, I'm sure you will.

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"We have issued a formal warning letter to KAN and will continue to monitor any promotional activities carefully and take appropriate action where needed."

More: https://t.co/KX3Gz5c4qc

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With LIBERATION winning the Pulitzer today and this season's plays being what they are, there's a very good chance that a woman wins the Tony Awards for Best Play for the first time since 2009. Imagine!

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made a false claim in his testimony to the House on Wednesday. Then he repeated it in his testimony to the Senate on Thursday.

Hegseth said Wednesday: “In 2024, troops were depl… – that was Joe Biden by the way, Joe Biden –  were deployed to polling locations in 15 states." He continued, "2024 – Joe Biden – troops deployed to polling locations in 15 states. Explain that one to me.”

Here’s the explanation: Hegseth’s claim isn't true.

Not only were all National Guard activations for the 2024 election done by individual states rather than Biden, all 11 states that responded to my inquiries said *no troops* there were sent to polling places.

Rather, they said, Guard personnel were in other locations helping with election cybersecurity, doing other behind-the-scenes support work, or not actually activated for the election after all.

Fact check with on-record quotes:

https://t.co/65YvqPJ8NA

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Every semester, I ask for students' favorite and least favorite class texts. There's no accounting for their taste.
A play few had strong opinions about before is now the least favorite of 40% of the class.
A film that's been the runaway least favorite is suddenly in the top 3.