382 stories from Carey Purcell
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 chal…
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 …
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 dise…
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 in Season…
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,…
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…
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 amorpho…
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 mu…
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 fi…
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 to…
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…
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…
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 dif…
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 again…
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 behind-th…
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 pape…
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…
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 …
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…
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. Nevert…
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…
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 …
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 ques…
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 America.…
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…
