On the one hand, a timeless show with a timely message. On the other, a worrying lack of originality? quality? newness? in the broader industry

It feels like we should be making a bigger deal of “we actually did in fact find a cure for AIDS”

But the idea that the key to reading (or in general experiencing a piece of art or a person or idea) is *being receptive* is one of the more valuable concepts I know of that can almost be expressed in a pithy aphorism. Be receptive.

Its similar for the actor too I think. Once you finish that first stumblethrough it suddenly becomes a different thing and you can do a lot more playing

This one is very important, I think people need to be constantly reminded of it the second they enter college theatre

We all love plays in which a chair becomes a throne, a car, a horse, and the Rock of Gibraltar. But lots of plays need more than chairs, and you don’t automatically improve them by ‘stripping them down.’

I went to Shakespeare in the park last night and if we had a society with actual values, the government would pay theater troupes in every town to put up free plays every night

Reddit occupied government

Interestingly, that's right around the time shakespeare was getting really popular

Escape From Neutrality A designer of theatres visits 4 great performance spaces you have to see before you die.

#tbt In our March 2012 issue, theatre designer Joshua Dachs wrote about 4 great theatre spaces not originally built for performance: NYC's Park Avenue Armory, Germany's Jahrhunderthalle, Brooklyn's Harvey Theatre, and Japan's Daendo.

Illo of a celestial person reaching up to grab a star. Based off the Pillars of Creation photo taken by the Hubble telescope in 1995. Drawn by gdbeeart in autumn 2021, photoshop.

Grasp, based off the Pillars of Creation photo taken by the Hubble telescope in the 90s

Easy-peasy then!

Do you think there are any steps to be taken to repair that civil-military relationship without reinstituting conscription? Which I agree will probably never happen

New Evidence Reveals Ancient Greeks Immediately Regretted Inventing Theater

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Private schools delenda est

Collections: The American Civil-Military Relationship As is traditional here, I am taking advantage of the Fourth of July this week to write something about the United States, this time a brief discussion of the nature of civil-military relations in t…

On the blog for the Fourth of July, a musing discussion of the American civil-military relationship, one of the United States' most remarkably successful traditions, almost two and a half centuries old, yet now fraying out of neglect and malice.
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This is a really good read, thanks

The Great Work continues

In this spirit does anyone have any good theatre based accounts to recommend?

I don't think it's ever possible for AI to be of any help in the creative process, it's fundamentally incompatible

Many years later, as he faced the editorial board, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani was to remember that distant afternoon when his father told him to abolish ICE

A lot of all of this is essentially a series of conspiracy theories and Republicans running on solving problems that are somewhere between overblown and nonexistent.

A ton of DOGE stuff was about eliminating waste that ideologically assumed to be real.

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The image shows the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt on display on the National Mall in Washington D.C. in October 1996. This particular display, from October 11-13, 1996, was the last time the entire quilt was shown in its entirety, covering the vast expanse of the National Mall from the Washington Monument towards the U.S. Capitol. It featured over 40,000 panels and drew approximately 1.2 million visitors.

AIDS Memorial Quilt on display October 11-13 1996 on the National Mall in Washington D.C. Let us never forget.

I have a book of Pinter's poems lying around somewhere, I need to read it

Who are your favorite poems/poets?

Theatre meaning workplace or Theatre meaning what you believe the act of theatre is?

I disagree actually, I think she's just as attached to him as Cassian is to Bix and won't be willing to give him up (but I do think hes going to die on Ghorman somehow)

I'd be especially interested to see your treatment of the whole "military leader leads army to victory and eventually becomes emperor before fusing with two others to become the hero-god of humanity/his empire" if it's not too far out of your wheelhouse!

I'd love to see your take on the arms/armor or even take a look at how well the Empire could realistically function