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Month: December 2009

How to Play the Diversity Card

How to Play the Diversity Card

The theatrosphere’s talk on diversity has gone from bad to worse. The three shills in the house, linking to each other’s blog posts to keep the thread undead, have been Isaac, 99 seats, and Scott. This comment by KL at Isaac’s correctly summarizes why everyone is jumping off this ship to nowhere. It’s not much of a conversation. It’s mostly one side arguing a principle (we need more diversity!) without really offering any facts. Instead, unsupported suppositions, misleading correlations and…

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Five Questions to/from Nick

Five Questions to/from Nick

A playwright in angst over his legitimacy writes: 1) And why must one only get money from the theatre to count as a playwright? 2) Is it somehow sinful to write for television or film and earn paychecks as well? 3) If being a playwright is what led to being hired on a show, then why doesn’t that count as earning a living from being a playwright? A parable of sorts. I fell in love and married one of the…

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Marginalized Workforce Monument

Marginalized Workforce Monument

Walking from my house to BAM the other night I happened upon this astounding sculpture. I was amazed mostly because the work appeared so official in its construction, so sponsored, yet there was no bronze plaque attached to the base identifying and claiming authorship. It turns out to be what I had hoped it would be. “portraits and monuments celebrating our cities marginalized workforce” A subtle, brilliant piece of culture jamming by Specter, aka Gabriel Reese. Since 1995 I have…

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