Sunday, August 9, 2020
These artists remind us of how multivalent the theater is, how many solutions there are to the crises of funding, isolation, censorship and personal voice.
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SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 10:48PMSunday, June 21, 2020
On this episode of the Burke's Law podcast, we enjoy those that Trump once called "My generals" giving him a slap-down -- right in his tiny privates.
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SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 12:25PMWednesday, June 10, 2020
By the time our theaters reopen, which artists will be left standing? Let us revisit the ancient notion of the acting company.
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SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 11:14PMMonday, May 25, 2020
Restorationists expect a familiar process will always work: they’re about the car wash. Opportunists look to innovate: they're about getting the car clean.
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SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 12:50PMTuesday, May 19, 2020
To my nonprofit arts fraynd and geshvister: email me, we'll tawk. Don't be a zhhlub and go schnorring for shekels. Don't ask -- yet.
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SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 04:24PMTuesday, February 18, 2020
It's one thing to grow up, and grow insecure, as the child of a celebrity. It's another thing to transcend it all with forgiveness.
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SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 03:14PMSunday, February 16, 2020
It's not just actor-playwright Charles Busch offering a revelatory exercise in camp along Off-Broadway right now. Watch his co-star.
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SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 11:51PMMonday, February 10, 2020
Remembering a period of history that was downright cruel, especially in regard to women's health -- and the woman who exposed it all.
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SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 08:50PMSaturday, February 1, 2020
"The Glorious Death of Comrade What's-His-Name" is based on a 1928 play, "The Suicide," by Nikolai Erdman, who was later exiled to Siberia.
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SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 05:51PMSunday, December 29, 2019
All else aside, writes William J. Mann, the actor was "a voice in the wilderness warning about the celebrity culture he spied coming down the tracks."
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SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 07:47PMTuesday, December 10, 2019
Have you heard about the election? I mean, it's all over the news. And are you factoring the election into your programming?
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SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 09:00AMMonday, December 9, 2019
This is two-act, two-hour-and-40-minute political issue to which attention must be paid.
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SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 10:26PMJudith Ivey appears at the center of a few, very individual stories of certain troubled Americans -- and a much, much larger American tragedy.
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SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 08:00AMThursday, December 5, 2019
Only 34 at the time that he wrote his first play, Jitney, August Wilson may or may not have known just how the emotion-driven syncopation of his language — haunting and lyrical, yet searin…
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 09:00AMSaturday, November 23, 2019
One day, reaching for this book will be a good way to revisit the escapades of the Trump presidency -- and to be glad that they're over.
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SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 03:30PMTuesday, November 19, 2019
Welcome to a 2019 fantasy history play about a 1979 White House experience that might have been.
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SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 11:57PMSaturday, November 16, 2019
The problem with Seattle's Intiman Theatre following (not for the first time) the hysterical-panic fundraising playbook first pioneered by Oral Roberts.
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SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 02:03PMTuesday, November 12, 2019
An exhilarating example of the public service that theater is forever capable of providing.
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SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 09:00AMSunday, November 3, 2019
If colonization is what got us to this place, maybe "re-indigenization" -- in dance -- is our way forward.
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SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 06:25PMMy old friend -- director of Broadway's hit "Slave Play" -- tells me why theater is the space for the complicated and the uncomfortable.
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SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 04:05PMSunday, October 27, 2019
My, my -- how can I resist Harvey Fierstein in his new play, "Bella Bella"?
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SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 02:57PMMonday, October 14, 2019
The hold of conservative Christianity on the American body politic is a symptom of the crisis.
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SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 11:51PMMonday, October 7, 2019
"Our idea has been to let the plays shine, to let the playwright shine, and to support each other."
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SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 03:50PMSunday, October 6, 2019
Harris' play is so scattershot that his many points, and the fireworks that generate, remain unhappily in chains.
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SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 07:01PMSaturday, October 5, 2019
Some say dance and film -- and especially technology -- make for strange bedfellows. Not so.
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SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 01:15PMThursday, September 26, 2019
"If we can inspire a sense of connection, wonder and whimsy in a fractured world, then I think we have done our job."
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SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 01:52PMWednesday, September 25, 2019
When it comes to acknowledging Native land before a performance, artists and administrators sure have room for thought and growth.
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SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 07:09PMAs Tolstoy said, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The Lennon-Bairds were no exception.
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SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 03:50PMMonday, September 23, 2019
An Oct. 3 live Skype from Antarctica at a Connecticut museum highlights science "on the ice" -- and art.
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SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 04:19PMSaturday, September 21, 2019
Composer Michael Kooman and book writer/lyricist Christopher Dimond celebrate their "average" world-premiere CD.
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SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 01:25PMFriday, September 20, 2019
If there's no positive impact you can measure, why hang your hat on the idea?
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