society

The first three-quarters of the reading we saw last night were provoking, exciting. And then came the end–you felt it coming; it was all the subtext at which the text had been hinting, brought to the surface: a package, neat. In the play’s last twenty minutes this live, delicate, complex [...]

NYC is the place to be if you want to be in dialogue with other theater artists.
I want to be in dialogue with people, all people, and places; theater is the medium.
I don’t want to have conversations about theater. I want to use theater to have conversations about the world. And to investigat [...]

Though our focus for The Fracking Play is on PA and ND, it’s also a hot topic in NY, the state where Patrick and I both live now. The NY Department of Environmental Conservation has received tens of thousands of comments from organizations and individuals related to the issue of hydraulic frac [...]

For six months, VISA, MasterCard, PayPal, Bank of America and Western Union have blocked donations to WikiLeaks.
I don’t think I could put it any better than the New York Times did:
“A bank’s ability to block payments to a legal entity raises a troubling prospect. A handful of big bank [...]

From 75 Abandoned Theaters from Around the USA: beautiful and haunting.
Somebody should do something with these. Obviously safety hazard to work inside. Still, a traveling show of some kind.

This is what community-engaged performance can look like: Marin Theatre Company performs In the Red and Brown Water in the projects. Watch it — it’s under 3 minutes.
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Things to note/ideas I liked:

The commu [...]

Everyone – check out this scientific paper.
I’ve never heard this put into scientific terms, but I know that I have seen it: “The “white male effect” refers to the until-now unexplained tendency of white males to fear all manner of risk less than women and minorities.& [...]