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Take Two for a Milestone Moment for Asian American Playwrights | TDF Lauren Yee, Alex Lin, Aya Ogawa and Jeena Yi all have new plays opening Off Broadway. They're excited and anxious.

With all of the darkness, it's great to be reminded of the light. Here, it's the fact that 4 female Asian American playwrights are getting produced in New York this winter/spring. Thank you @eileenrivera1.bsky.social

Playwright Lauren Gunderson Responds to Her Name Showing Up in the Jeffrey Epstein Files Gunderson's ex-husband, Nathan Wolfe, appeared over 500 times in the documents.

"There is a long history of the public rushing to vilify women without curiosity or compassion for their point of view, not to mention the truth." Update to my reporting from yesterday.

the $75 million Jeff Bezos set on fire for that Melania propaganda piece could have funded most independent newsrooms for literally decades

Washington Post Lays Off Theatre Critic Naveen Kumar, Raising Questions of Continuing Arts Coverage The move is part of a sweeping round of layoffs that reportedly affects 30% of the institution's workforce.

So sad about this. Naveen deserves better. So do the artists of D.C. and all of us readers. Billionaires are a mistake

So many brands this year releasing Lunar New Year collections, as immigrants (many of them Asian) are being rounded up. Before you buy because “representation,” ask which immigrant charities they support? Have they condemned ICE? Otherwise they’re taking your money while stabbing you in the back

Political persecution. Dad was a South Vietnamese lieutenant during the war, got thrown into a POW camp for 6 years, government would not allow his kids to go to college. So we came in 1990. I was 2. He’s heartbroken by what this country has become

Actor Anne Gridley Is Slowly Losing Her Ability to Walk, And She's Made a Show About It In Watch Me Walk , the Obie winner gets honest about her disability, with plenty of theatrical pizzazz.

"It comes to the point where I have to use a wheelchair, then I'll just change the title to Watch Me Roll." I talk to the always compelling Anne Gridley about her disability, her Soho Rep show Watch Me Walk, and accepting loss with grace and humor.

Hopefully it stays Korean.

Didn’t know that was going on! I hope someone captures footage.

So psyched that horror musical Sinners got 16 Oscar nominations that it made me want to tell you all about me watching Sinners on a plane where they kept all the blood, Michael B Jordan’s sex scene, lynching references, but removed all the cunnilingus moments. Really sums up the culture

If every Democrat voted NO on funding ICE, it would not have passed the House. But, 7 House Democrats voted to fund Trump's lawless, masked goons, so it passed.

Hakeem Jeffries refused to whip his members to vote against ICE funding. Genuinely unforgivable.

Every time the Trump regime uses the words "funded protesters" and "outside agitators" news outlets need to cut to this photo from last week.

ICE has invaded these communities. Outside agitators don't show up in their fucking bathrobes.

the question to ask about this is, okay, he wants to cancel the midterms. how does he get the VA state board of elections to cancel the midterms? how does he get the georgia board of elections to do it? how does he convince republican house members to quit their jobs and give up their paychecks?

Abolish Ice should be a centrist position

Time to call your reps, especially if they're Democrats, to join the call to Abolish ICE and Defund DHS

Rewatching, while knowing that Don will never change, means the viewers can't do the easy thing and blame the women for not being "good enough" to change him. We need to be reminded that a man's behavior is not a woman's responsibility. And that excessive smoking and drinking ages you

Rewatching Mad Men. I so remember the early 2010s discourse being so hateful against Betty and blaming her for Don's behavior. When it's clear now, she's a person slowly realizing everything she was sold on how to be happy is a lie. With no tools, or language, to help her grow

Today, I'm really feeling Shaina Taub as Emma Goldman yelling "strike!" on the Ragtime cast album

Star Tribune identifies ICE agent who fatally shot woman in Minneapolis Jonathan Ross was dragged in a separate incident last year by a fleeing driver, according to court records.

his name is Jonathan Ross and he shouldn't get a good night's sleep for the rest of his life www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

As Book of Mormon turns 15, it’s pretty fitting that the South Park crew are leading the resistance www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

Also, in the Trump era, every accusation is a confession. What kind of person would want to have his name on a theater, if not a theater kid who is bitter that other theater kids hate him. It's giving Hitler who failed as an artist so he became a Nazi

Not surprising the people who have demonized "diversity, equity, and inclusion" hate theater kids. They hate people who are earnest about their beliefs, who are passionate about self expression, and who don't back down when people call their dreams silly. Under fascism, theater kids are dangerous

The Vanity Fair Susie Wiles piece and photos is the gold standard of what journalists should be doing in the Trump/disinformation era. You can report on terrible people without sane-washing or normalizing their behavior and rhetoric. The old rules around editorializing needs to be thrown away

In the latest Knives Out, we discover Benoit Blanc listens to Cats in the car and can play the opening bars of Phantom of the Opera. First Follies, now Cats, the man really does contain multitudes

First Kumail Nanjiani and now Simu Liu. It’ll be pretty funny if every Marvel superhero eventually does OH MARY! Fighting a drunk Mary Todd is arguably more challenging than Thanos

I'm so happy that Ejae, Audrey Nuna, and Rei Ami are pulling an Idina Menzel circa 2014 and performing "Golden" everywhere. I will watch all of them and I hope no one mispronounces their name at the Oscars

Bring back John Proctor is the Villain

For the First Time in Its History, Lincoln Center Theater Is Run By Women Lear deBessonet has stepped in as artistic director, while Maria Manuela Goyanes is running LCT3.

I talk to Lear deBessonet and Maria Goyanes, the first (!) women to run Lincoln Center Theater about the tough business of producing theatre in this economy.

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7 Heartwarming Details You Can See Only in the Merrily We Roll Along Live Stage Film You may have seen the Tony-winning Broadway revival in the theatre, but the new film offers an intimate perspective.

Did I overanalyze every frame of the new Merrily We Roll Along pro-shot? Yes, yes I did.