Thursday, March 24, 2016

I Saw Hamilton So Now I’m Going to Orphan My Son. by Katie Schorr

I saw Hamilton on Broadway — because I’m (sort of) young, scrappy, and hungry and also (very) white, privileged, and on trend — and boy did it inspire me. First of all, I immediately p…

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Thursday, January 15, 2015

Audience Instructions for Our Immersive/Experimental Theatre Production in an Abandoned Middle School in Bushwick. by Rachel Klein

If you are receiving this missive, you have purchased a ticket for The Ducks Have Flown, an immersive/experimental theatre experience inspired and maddeningly loosely based on both the novel…

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Monday, December 24, 2012

I Regret to Inform You That My Wedding to Captain Von Trapp Has Been Canceled. by Melinda Taub

Captain Von Trapp and I are very sorry to inform you that we no longer plan to wed. We offer our deepest apologies to those of you who have already made plans to travel to Salzburg this summ…

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Monday, July 16, 2012

An Honest Theatrical Playbill. by Daniel Falk

As a young director I always promised myself I’d never be responsible for the further flogging of this dead horse. Yet here I am, directing it for the fourth goddamn time in twenty years. …

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Sunday, March 4, 2001

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