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Saturday, October 28, 2017

“No Fatties”: When Health Care Hurts by Carey

Originally published on Longreads.com View this story online A fat person walking into a doctor’s office can expect lectures, condescension, and misdiagnoses from a medical culture that ch…

SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 02:38PM
Friday, October 27, 2017

Theater: Women’s Struggles Continue Post-Apocalypse in Zoe Kazan’s New Play by Carey

According to Kazan’s compelling After the Blast, progress for women is moving slower than we think. In this post-apocalyptic play, directed with clarity and compassion by Lila Neugebauer …

SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 02:58PM
Tuesday, October 17, 2017

Theater: The Personal Is Political in {my lingerie play} by Carey

Originally published on The Culture Trip View this story online The need for “safe spaces” has been written about endlessly in the press. Some espouse the belief that people, especially …

SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:03AM
Thursday, October 12, 2017

Crazy Ex-Girlfriend’s Paula Is Serving Up Sweet Revenge and Cathartic Rage by Carey

Originally published on Vanity Fair Hollywood View this story online Star Donna Lynne Champlin talks Paula’s groundbreaking past—especially that abortion arc—and what’s coming next i…

SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:20PM
Wednesday, October 4, 2017

Yearning for Neverland in For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday by Carey

Originally published on The Culture Trip View this story online   The program notes state that Ruhl wrote For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday as a gift to her mother, Katherine, who p…

SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:11AM
Thursday, September 21, 2017

A Clockwork Orange Bulges With Muscles and Ideas by Carey

Originally published on The Culture Trip View this story online No matter where the audience looks during A Clockwork Orange, male muscles are visible–flexing, tensing, and bulging. The c…

SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 01:29AM
Friday, September 8, 2017

It Girl: Introducing Sophia Lillis, Heart and Soul of the Losers’ Club by Carey

Originally published on Vanity Fair Hollywood View this story online Facing puberty is bad enough—but try doing that while also juggling an absent mother, a disturbing father, and an amorp…

SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:07AM
Saturday, August 19, 2017

Seeing Yourself Onstage: The Heidi Chronicles by Carey

  I often go to the theater to escape my life. Not that my life is horrible, but who doesn’t need a break now and then from their everyday problems, jobs, or relationships? Plays and …

SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 12:37PM
Friday, August 18, 2017

Why the Play “Wit” Made Me Cry So Hard by Carey

Originally published on Show-Score.com View this post online I didn’t cry a lot when I was sick. I was too busy, stressed, and scared to allow myself to break down in tears. It was almost …

SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:18AM
Friday, July 14, 2017

It’s OK to Not Be Facebook Friends With Your S.O. by Carey

Originally published on Glamour.com View this story online Miranda and her boyfriend, Daniel,* have been together for almost two years. They’ve traveled around the country, spent holidays …

SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:39AM
Sunday, June 25, 2017

The GOP’s Health-Care Bill Is Absurdly Cruel to Sexual Assault Victims by Carey

Originally published in DAME magazine View this story online It never occurred to Jessica* to not report her rape. After being attacked at a bar when she was 24, she immediately told her fri…

SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:11AM
Friday, June 9, 2017

Has Broadway Discovered … Feminism? by Carey

Originally published in Dame Magazine View this story online The Tony Awards are hardly known as a feminist event, but on Sunday, June 11, if we are lucky, we may be witnessing a first. In t…

SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 04:44PM
Wednesday, May 24, 2017

The Daughter of a Muslim Feminist Icon on the Many Faces of “Self-Defense” by Carey

Originally published in Fusion Read this story online In Front Lines, Fusion speaks to activists leading the charge in all kinds of ways. Nasreen Alkhateeb’s teenage rebellion wasn’t too…

SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:39PM
Friday, May 19, 2017

With “She,” Jinah Parker Triumphs Over A Culture That Abuses Women by Carey

Originally published in The Village Voice View this story online Just over a year ago, when Jinah Parker began working on She, a dance- and spoken word–centered exploration of violence aga…

SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:29AM
Monday, May 15, 2017

For the men writing and directing female roles on Broadway, an exercise in empathy by Carey

Originally published on Broadway News View this story online A pivotal moment pauses a boisterous cocktail hour in the second act of “Oslo,” the new Tony-nominated play chronicling behin…

SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:56AM
Monday, May 1, 2017

Ten Years Later, a One-Woman Show is Still One Man’s Work by Carey

Originally published in the New York Times View this story online   Alerts sound about 10 times an hour on Kris Andersson’s phone, but the multitasking performer may be keeping the pa…

SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 03:21PM
Tuesday, April 25, 2017

Elisabeth Moss Talks The Handmaid’s Tale and Women’s Rights in the Age of Donald Trump by Carey

Originally published on TeenVogue.com View this story online She never meant to become a symbol of the feminist movement. But throughout her career, which began at the age of eight, Elisabet…

SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:44AM
Thursday, April 20, 2017

Curtains Up on Feuding Cosmetics Queens in “War Paint by Carey

When it comes to makeup, experts always say that less is more. Though the new musical War Paint chronicles the rivalry between the groundbreaking cosmetics titans Elizabeth Arden and Helena …

SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:10AM
Thursday, April 13, 2017

New York Theater Resists the Age of Trump by Carey

Originally published on The Culture Trip View this story online Given the time it takes to complete a script, playwrights are seldom first responders to a political upheaval. Yet Donald Trum…

SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 03:53PM
Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Joan of Arc by Carey

Originally published on Paste Magazine View this story online Before Joan of Arc: Into the Fire begins at the Public Theater, the words, “She was warned. She was given an explanation. Neve…

SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 05:11PM

The Emperor Jones by Carey

Originally published in Paste Magazine View this story online The steady beat of tom-toms seems go on for eternity in the breathtakingly realized production of The Emperor Jones at off-Broad…

SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:17AM
Thursday, March 30, 2017

The Long Struggle of Queer Methodists Who Want to Belong by Carey

Originally published on Vice.com View this story online As queer clergy and churchgoers increase in prominence and visibility, many say the divide between the Church’s progressive and …

SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 08:58PM

How to Transcend a Happy Marriage by Carey

Originally published on The Culture Trip View this story online Are we just animals? Or are we a different species altogether, one compromised by our animal instincts? That’s one of the qu…

SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 12:03PM
Wednesday, March 22, 2017

Sunset Boulevard by Carey

It’s an ironic experience, to say the least, to watch a merciless exploration of fame and its dismissive treatment of women performed by arguably one of the most famous actresses in Americ…

SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:58AM
Monday, March 13, 2017

Gideon Glick on Playing Jordan in Significant Other by Carey

Originally published on Paste Magazine View this story online Gideon Glick has grown up onstage-as a former teenager and now millennial would say-literally. The actor made his Broadway debut…

SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 03:19PM
Saturday, March 11, 2017

Theater: In Linda, She Has It All, But How Can She Keep It? by Carey

Originally published on The Culture Trip View this story online  The play opens with 55-year-old Linda declaring to an unseen group of other middle-aged women, “We know you’re out there…

SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 10:23AM
Monday, March 6, 2017

A History of Sweeney Todd: Why Stephen Sondheim’s Pies Never Get Stale by Carey

Originally published on Mic.com View this story online Sweeney Todd, Stephen Sondheim’s musical about revenge, lust, murder and cannibalism, has found yet another home in New York City…

SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 01:48PM
Friday, March 3, 2017

Doctors and Legal Experts Fear the Worst for Trans Healthcare Under Trump by Carey

Originally published on Vice.com View this story online Should we lose hard-won anti-discrimination protections and healthcare access, an already marginalized community may suffer tragic con…

SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 02:44PM
Wednesday, March 1, 2017

The Object Lesson by Carey

Originally published on Paste Magazine View this story online An admittedly anxious person who often copes with stress or uncertainty by cleaning, I was curious as to how I would feel during…

SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:02AM
Sunday, February 26, 2017

Karen Ziemba on Playing Eileen in Kid Victory by Carey

Originally published in Paste Magazine View this story online “Mom doesn’t dance too much,” Karen Ziemba says, a bit wistfully, of her latest performance. The statement, and how the To…

SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 11:07AM
Thursday, February 23, 2017

Sunday in the Park With George: Jake Gyllenhaal brings the tortured artist to Broadway by Carey

Originally published on Mic.com View this story online No one can accuse Jake Gyllenhaal of being a slacker. The Oscar-nominated actor is known for playing intense, perhaps tortured characte…

SOURCE: Carey Purcell at 09:14PM

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