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Listen to ten minutes of Glenn Beck fellating Spider-Man, dropping the following references in extolling its virtues: global warming's wrongness, Michael Buble, big government, Cirque du Soleil, Disney World, "the spirit of entrepreneurship," and the 8th Wonder of the World. More »
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Emma Goldman was an anarchist feminist boat rocking force to be reckoned with, and this afternoon, you can catch a one woman play about her life live from your computer. More »
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Uninhibited electro-sex rocker Peaches was initially denied a license to perform her personal interpretation of "Jesus Christ Superstar," because Andrew Lloyd Webber's production company was worried about her phallic crucifixes and other sex-stuff. But everything worked out in the end. More »
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After many protested the Theatre Development Fund's refusal to award any female playwright this years' $25,000 Wendy Wasserstein Prize, the group has announced it's changing the selection process. The 19 nominees will probably be asked to submit more plays. More »
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The Theatre Development Fund, which awards the annual Wasserstein Prize (named after late playwright Wendy Wasserstein) to a female playwright, has turned down all 19 nominees this year. The selection panel says the entries weren't "truly outstanding." People are pissed! More »
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Two things from this 1987 clip of Russell Crowe performing in a Melbourne production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show: great stage energy, and great gams. More »
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In response to the dearth of women at the Tonys, a group of artists held the first ever Lilly Awards on Sunday. "Whining does no good, so we decided to give a party," said Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Marsha Norman. [Variety] More »
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We obviously have a long way to go in any honest conversation about sexuality and pop culture — sparked recently by the Newsweek article doubting gay actors can play straight. Curiously, actors seem to get it more than Newsweek does. More »
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Why yes, I did see an all-female production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar last night. And yes, it was awesome. More »
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"Fat has become the ultimate anti-feminist issue," writes Sara Keating in her piece about fighting objectification through theater. The banishment of fat, and the pursuit of thin, is the subject of Skin and Blisters. More »
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A new production opening October 12th will show the aftermath of the murder of Matthew Shepard—from the perspective of his murderer. The script is based on detailed interviews with homophobe and murderer Aaron McKinney. [WWLTV] More »
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"I still haven't come up with a good answer to 'He's so hot, how did you land him?' or 'You're so lucky to be with him!' Um, thanks?" — Jennifer Westfeldt, on boyfriend Jon Hamm's new-ish fame [NY Mag] More »
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• Christie Glissmeyer has set a new record for tallest waterfall kayaked. On Sunday, she beat the record of 78-feet by kayaking over the 82-foot Metlako Falls. • More »
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It's safe to say this is a new interpretation of the Rosenbergs, the couple executed in 1953 for alleged espionage, namely, a puppet show created by the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater in NYC. Says creator Vit Horejs, “When I was writing it, I was convinced we would be using marionettes for all these protagonists moved by the machinery of the justice system or injustice system. That would obviously be an easy metaphor.” In addition to the Rosenberg puppets (who meet their end in miniature electric chairs, left) the cast includes live actors and two teddy bears, representing the couple's sons. [NY Times] More »
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Female playwrights frustrated by the small number of plays in production and written by women for the 2008-9 season are holding a meeting tonight to air their grievances with representatives of leading theaters. Playwrights Sarah Schulman and Julia Jordan say that plays by men are being produced in Off Broadway theaters at 4 times the rate of plays by women. The problem is even worse on Broadway, where not a single play currently running was written by a woman. “I personally don’t think playwriting is a gene on a Y chromosome,” says playwright Theresa Rebeck. "Many of our male peers find the debate intolerable. Men in the community seem to think that everything is fine.” [NY Times] More »
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There's a staging of Romeo and Juliet at Washington D.C.'s Capitol Hill Arts Workshop that's different from any other version you may have seen: The entire cast is female. "An hour shorter, a fraction of the cost and 100 percent more women," is the production's slogan. It's meant to be a throwdown, a challenge to the grander, costlier all-male Romeo and Juliet at Shakespeare Theatre Company's Sidney Harman Hall. And estrogen isn't the only thing different about the play run by Taffety Punk, the theater company doing the "smarter, cheaper, better" play: The famous balcony scene is done on monkey bars. [Washington Post] More »
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Morten Traavik, the Norwegian theater director who created a beauty pageant for female landmine victims called "Miss Landmine," is coming under criticism for exploiting the women and creating a "freak show". Traavik responds that he is helping the victims and is "fed up" with pictures of Africans and Cambodians in rags, but to be honest, his claims might be more convincing if he did more than "raise awareness" and give the winners gold prosthetic limbs. [Guardian] More »
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