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A Safe Space to Be Unsafe
The University of Chicago made news by telling its incoming students not to expect trigger warnings or safe spaces, and not to bother petitioning the administration to disinvite problematic speakers. Responses have varied from “good for them!” to “how authoritarian!” In between sweeping bans on a major component of campus culture and the sweeping fear…
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So Diversity Is Important to You …
I wrote this satirical piece the other night out of frustration with Chicago’s Porchlight Theatre, which is doing In the Heights with white actors playing leading characters of color. Companies like Porchlight have oversimplified what it means to do diversity, believing apparently that saying they “tried” is enough. This is an oversimplification because it is actually complicated, difficult, and…
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Lynn Nottage Talks Research, Collaboration, and the Fracturing of America,
Originally published by Howlround on January 28, 2016 Lynn Nottage’s newest play, Sweat, a co-commission by Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) and Arena Stage, originated in OSF’s American Revolutions: The United States History Cycle. Nottage’s contribution to this ten-year program of commissioning “up to thirty-seven new plays from moments of change in United States history” deals…
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Women’s Voices Theater Festival: A Weekend in the Emerald City
Originally published by HowlRound on November 10, 2015 This piece is a follow up to an earlier preview of the Women’s Voices Theater Festival. Read the original piece here. Was it Oz? Well, it took me about as long to recover from my weekend in DC as I imagine it took Dorothy to settle back…
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A Feminist Guide to Horror Movies, Part 9: Be Careful What You Wish For
Originally published by Ms. Magazine on October 30, 2015 Apparently the spirits of Halloween can be quick to respond this time of year, because no sooner did I wish for a Gothic horror-based film that enables its young heroine to save herself and even her family without the help of men, whether dead or alive, than I found…
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A Feminist Guide to Horror Movies, Part 8: Beware of Crimson Peak
Originally published by Ms. Magazine on October 28, 2015 Author’s Note: If the thing that scares you most is disagreement among feminists, you might not want to read this post—fellow feminist film buff Natalie Wilson gave this movie a glowing review on the Ms. Blog last week. Surely a well-cast hex or two will bring…
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A Feminist Guide to Horror Movies, Part 7: New Beginnings
Originally published by Ms. Magazine on October 27, 2015 Just when you thought it was safe to go back on the Internet around Halloween without being confronted with those pesky feminist analyses of every goth girl, riot grrrl and geek girl’s favorite genre—horror—SHE’S BACK with that darn Feminist Guide to Horror Movies. And this time,…
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Comedy of Errors
by William Shakespeare Saratoga Shakespeare Company, 2015 photos by Madison Caan costumes by Joan Lawson
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American Medea
written and directed by Holly L. Derr Skidmore College, Fall 2014 sets by Garret Wilson lighting by Jared Klein costumes by Patricia Pawliczak
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