Downsizing SISTER ACT Pays Big Dividends at Matthews Playhouse
Downsizing SISTER ACT Pays Big Dividends at Matthews Playhouse
Review: Sister Act at Matthews Playhouse
By Perry Tannenbaum
A full flowering of onstage success has somehow scurried away from Iris DeWitt in recent years. Just last April, pandemic restrictions and a wretched recording rig trapped her inside a masked, malodorous production of Sense and Sensibility at Central Piedmont Community College. Patchy intelligibility also wrecked DeWitt’s previous…
HOUSE and GARDEN
The Crescent Theatre, Birmingham, Saturday 3rd/Sunday 4th February 2024
That ever-ambitious lot at the Crescent have chosen to mark the theatre’s centenary by staging Alan Ayckbourn’s double-bill, where two plays run simultaneously, one on the main stage and the other in the studio, but (here’s the rub) there is only one cast between the two. When someone leaves the house,…
Publicado el número 16 (2023) del «Anuario Calderoniano» (ISSN: 1888-8046)
Se acaba de publicar el número 16 del Anuario Calderoniano (ISSN: 1888-8046), correspondiente al año 2023. El volumen se abre con una sección monográfica dedicada a «La escena en el teatro áureo y en el teatro isabelino», que ha sido coordinada por Paula Baldwin Lind, en la que se proponen acercamientos desde la hermenéutica teatral, el análisis espacial, repertorios y puestas en escena,…
#PrisonForPaula #Scumnt #StopElderAbuse #BlackLivesMatter #AutisticLivesMatter #EndGasLighting New Stuff
Paula Stevenson Ennis is a MONSTER who is losing her power, finally, and probably her memory as well by now. Too bad, not sad. She should have known better but she never did listen to our parents. She needs to go to JAIL!
BLACK LIVES MATTER AND WE ARE NOT WHITE
If I die, I was MURDERED by the East Fishkill, NY Police Department to SILENCE me about how their younger officers terrorize and molest…
Into the Water - Paula Hawkins // The Nutritionist - Andrea Gibson // LIFE Magazine 1963 - James Baldwin // Anti-depressants are so not a big deal - Crazy Ex-Girlfriend // Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech 2017 - Kazuo Ishiguro // Invisible Planets - Hao Jingfang (tr. Ken Liu) // tumblr user @/poseidonsarmoury // Road to Hell (Reprise) - Hadestown // Letters to Milena - Franz Kafka // The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger // Exandria Unlimited: Calamity - Brennan Lee Mulligan
Round 1A:
Debra Monk vs. Kate Baldwin
Carolee Carmello vs. Julie White
Laura Linney vs. Katie Finneran
Audra McDonald vs. Rebecca Luker
Jan Maxwell vs. Jayne Houdyshell
Stephanie J. Block vs. Cherry Jones
Janet McTeer vs. Brenda Braxton
Paula Leggett Chase vs. Patricia Clarkson
Openly gay actor Maulik Pancholy was disinvited from speaking at a middle school anti-bullying assembly after concerns were raised about his political activism and what two school board members called his “lifestyle.”
Pancholy’s scheduled appearance at Mountain View Middle School in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, was unanimously overturned by the district’s school board in a public meeting on April 15.
“If you research this individual, he labels himself as an activist, he is proud of his lifestyle and I don’t think that should be imposed upon our students at any age,” board member Bud Shaffner said at the meeting.
Trisha Comstock, a former parent at the school, started a Change.org petition to reinstate the empathy and anti-bullying assembly.
“What happened is homophobic. Anyone can go and watch the meeting,” Comstack tells TODAY.com. “This board is close to causing some real harm.”
Why was Maulik Pancholy disinvited?
Board member Kelly Potteiger raised concerns that Pancholy, 50, would discuss his children’s book “The Best at It,” which is about a gay Indian American boy.
“It’s not discriminating against his lifestyle — that’s his choice,” Potteiger said in the meeting. “But it’s him speaking about it.”
Pancholy played the character Jonathan, Alex Baldwin’s devoted assistant, in the sitcom “30 Rock,” and also voiced the character Baljeet in “Phineas and Ferb.”
Pancholy’s presentation on anti-bullying at Mountain View Middle School was canceled by an 8-0 vote. TODAY.com has reached out to Pancholy for comment.
Brooke Ryerson, an LGBTQ high school sophomore, attended Mountain View Middle School. Ryerson and her mom plan to express their disappointment at the next board meeting on May 6.
“It was going to be an assembly about empathy and anti-bullying,” Ryerson, 16, tells TODAY.com. “But that doesn’t matter to the board. They want to silence us in any way they can.”
The “us” that Ryerson is referring to is the gay community.
“They’re sending that message that they don’t want our identities in the school,” Ryerson says. “I’m lucky that I have such accepting friends and family, but it’s gotta be devastating for the kids who don’t and now feel even more like they’re not wanted somewhere.”
The cowardly Cumberland Valley School District school board in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania voted to cancel gay 30 Rock actor Maulik Pancholy's appearance at a middle school anti-bullying assembly, with 2 of its board members using the homophobic "lifestyle" canard to justify canceling Pancholy's address to middle schoolers.
See Also:
LGBTQ Nation: School board cancels anti-bullying talk by gay actor because of his “lifestyle”
64 ships enter, one ship leaves! who will reign supreme? how will your faves fare? it's a tlournament for the ages!
this is a seeded bracket generated from ships suggested in a google form. round 1 begins thursday, 03/30/23 and will run for one week. propaganda is encouraged - tag this blog and i'll share it!
ROUND 1 MATCHUPS:
Megan Ito/Parker MacMillan VS Leon Duncan/Andrew Trebek
Finn James/Kennedy Loser VS Hewitt Best/Yeong-Ho Garcia
Flattery McKinley/Niq Nyong'o VS Jessica Telephone/Betsy Trombone
Tillman Henderson/Declan Suzanne VS Don Mitchell/Percival Wheeler
Baldwin Breadwinner/Alyssa Harrell VS Axel Cardenas/Miguel Wheeler
Dominic Marijuana/Andrew Solis VS Eduardo Ingram/Leach Ingram
Pedro Davids/Valentine Games VS Anathema Elemefayo/Patty Fox/Hatfield Suzuki
Stevenson Heat/James Mora VS Baby Triumphant/Castillo Turner
Yosh Carpenter/Sebastian Woodman VS Cannonball Sports/Bees Taswell
Igneus Delacruz/Howell Franklin VS Mcdowell Mason/Sexton Wheerer
Allison Abbott/Kichiro Guerra VS Eugenia Garbage/Ziwa Mueller
Caleb Alvarado/Isaac Johnson VS Conner Haley/Sebastian Telephone
Brock Forbes/Adalberto Tosser VS Domino Bootleg/Theodore Honeywell
Lenny Marijuana/Chorby Short VS Moody Cookbook/Landry Violence
Margarito Nava/Nic Winkler VS Riley Firewall/Geraldine Frost
Inez Owens/Bees Taswell VS Paula Turnip/Hiroto Wilcox
Tyreek Olive/Landry Violence VS Fitzgerald Blackburn/Math Velazquez
Val Hitherto/Nerd Pacheco VS Ortiz Lopez/Pitching Machine
Luis Acevedo/Tot Clark VS Derrick Krueger/Sebastian Telephone
The San Francisco Lovers VS Gita Sparrow/Jayden Wright
Tillman Henderson/Mike Townsend VS Famous Owens/Mclaughlin Scorpler
Alaynabella Hollywood/Magi Ruiz VS Nerd Pacheco/Lars Taylor
Nagomi Mcdaniel/York Silk's Mom VS Qais Dogwalker/Grollis Zephyr
Jacob Haynes/Alaynabella Hollywood/Moses Mason VS Burke Gonzalez/Brock Watson/Joshua Watson
Jaylen Hotdogfingers/Jessica Telephone VS Juice Collins/Sutton Dreamy
Sandford Garner/Don Mitchell VS Famous Owens/Nerd Pacheco
Rivers Rosa/Lou Roseheart VS Jode Crutch/Rush Ito
Declan Suzanne/Edric Tosser/Baby Triumphant VS Lady Matsuyama/Bottles Šuljak
Cornelius Games/Richardson Games VS Mags Banananana/Eugenia Bickle
Workman Gloom & PolkaDot Patterson VS Shannon Chamberlain/Kennedy Loser
Caligula Lotus/Beck Whitney VS Steals Mondegreen/Silvaire Semiquaver
Summers Preston/Stephanie Winters VS Haruta Byrd/Bright Zimmerman
woaaah miguel anniematic part TWO lets gooOOoOooOo
Design credits under the cut anyway the way i am so glad miguel didnt fall anywhere until i was done with this
design credits (most of these are twitter handles):
Individual Design Credits: Aldon Cashmoney by occultclassic - Jessica Telephone by telekeys - Avila Guzman by juangeedraws - Valentine Games, Valentine Games II by deerstained - Esme Ramsey by HetreaSky and grr - Comfort Septemberish by TedFallenger - Pudge Nakamoto by solphy - Basilio Fig by Fancymancer - Felix Garbage by ShorterSneakier - Kit Honey by saltbuzzard - Knight Triumphant by antsolot - Coolname Galvanic by skelebells - Baldwin Breadwinner by Glassgoblin
Wiki Pages: Richmond Harrison - Logan Horseman
Other: Nerd Pacheco - Miguel James - Eugenia Bickle - Lars Taylor - Mummy Melcon - Sutton Bishop - Kaj Statter Jr. - Jayden Wright - Wyatt Mason VII - Zack Sanders - Nagomi Nava - Iggy Delacruz - Hahn Fox - Sandoval Crossing - Paula Reddick - Kaz Fiasco - Joe Voorhees - Dudley Mueller - Hendricks Richardson - Sigmund Castillo - Quack Enjoyable - Phineas Wormthrice - Howell Franklin - Silvaire Semiquaver - Malik Romayne - Alaynabella Hollywood - Siobhan Chark - Elvis Figueroa - Liquid Friend XIV
15, 17, 20, 31, 32, & 43 for the book worm ask!!! (from a fellow book worm w strong opinions 😂)
15. Which genre(s) are your favorite?
Speculative fiction with an extra-special place for fantasy in my heart. If (?) poetry and plays count as genres, then those too!
17. Favorite finished book series.
....................impossible question but I'll go with The Chronicles of Prydain, which is gorgeous nostalgia (this article owns my heart).
20. Where and how do you find new books to read?
I refresh my Overdrive library a ton to browse new additions + like to go to bookstores for fun, but the real answer is that my to-read list is 1000+ books long. I don't know how this happened. Please help me.
31. Do you mostly read through e-reader; reading app on phone; on your laptop; a physical copy; or by audiobook?
Reading app hooked to my local library! I prefer physical copies, but it's much easier to read via app on the train.
32. Name your favorite authors.
behold some unhinged lists in no particular order
Authors: Lloyd Alexander, Roald Dahl, C. S. Lewis, Catherynne M. Valente, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Shannon Hale, Gail Carson Levine, James Baldwin, Gabriel García Márquez, Markus Zusak
Playwrights: Shakespeare, Chekhov, Tony Kushner, Paula Vogel, August Wilson, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Taylor Mac, Katori Hall
Poets: e. e. cummings, Rilke, Seamus Heaney, Czeslaw Miłosz, W. S. Merwin, Lucille Clifton, Jane Hirshfield, Osip Mandelstam, Zbigniew Herbert, Mary Oliver, Kay Ryan, Carl Sandburg, Pablo Neruda
43. Title of a book you own that's in the worst physical condition you have. Explain what happened to it. Post a picture if you want.
Most of the books I own aren't in my current apartment, but, based on the frantic mental inventory I just did, I think my copy of The Last Battle? I read it so many times in direct sunlight one summer that the glue holding the spine together melted. I turned the page and the entire cover fell off in my lap.
Thank you for the ask! This completely made my day 💛💛💛
THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham, Saturday 25th February 2023
Paula Hawkins’s best-selling novel is so effective because of its first person narrative, from the girl on the train herself. She’s an unreliable narrator, so we’re never sure if what she says happened happened or whether it’s her booze-tinted imagination. The stage adaptation by Duncan Abel & Rachel Wagstaff has…
Disponible en Acceso Abierto el número 15 (2022) del «Anuario Calderoniano» (ISSN: 1888-8046)
Mientras se encuentra en imprenta el número 16 (2023) del Anuario Calderoniano (ISSN: 1888-8046) —con una sección monográfica dedicada a «La escena en el teatro áureo y en el teatro isabelino» coordinada por Paula Baldwin Lind—, anunciamos que se encuentra disponible en Acceso Abierto (Open Access) el número 15, correspondiente al año 2022. Los materiales pueden consultarse y descargarse en…