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Playwright on Playwright

Interview
AriDy Nox discusses their new play A Walless Church, the Black Woman’s Guide to Making God which opens September 21 at Pillsbury House + Theatre TyLie: Hi AriDy! Congratulations on your upcoming production at Pillsbury House + Theatre. AriDy: Thank you so much! I am so thrilled to be here. It’s really the
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“The Supremes at Earl’s All You Can Eat” a film review

Review
If you were not part of one, perhaps you witnessed an inseparable group of friends who, binded by the depths of their secrets, matriculated from adolescence to adulthood together - providing a soft place for one another to land throughout hard times, and a standing ovation to celebrate the good times. In fact
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Mouthing Off: Nan Barnett: Creating the Canon

Interview
Recorded on August 25, 2024 Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify Nan Barnett, Executive Director of the National New Play Network, joins the show to discuss new writing for the American theatre, the New Play Exchange, and more. nnpn.org Mouthing Off: Nan Barnett: Creating the Canon facebook.com/badmouthtc
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Mouthing Off: Dawson Moore & the Whales

Interview
Recorded on August 19, 2024 Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify Valdez Theatre Conference director Dawson Moore comes back on the pod to talk theatre in higher education, conferencing, Alaska, and more. theatreconference.org Mouthing Off: Dawson Moore & the Whales facebook.com/badmouthtc instagram.com
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  • Meanwhile, at the capitol

    Editorial

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  • Singing about history

    Editorial

    Andrew Gaylord is a listener. If you ask him a question he's more than likely to want to hear your...

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  • Which Woody Guthrie is yours?

    Review

    Few questions reveal more about an American’s soul than, “Which verses of ‘This Land Is Your Land’ do you know?”...

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  • Where many roads meet

    Interview

    If you watch children’s television, you know him as Randy the Planner on The Choo Choo Bob Show. If...

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  • Next to inaccurate

    Review

    As a critic, I am in a terrible bind: the Yellow Tree Theatre has just staged a beautiful production of...

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  • History, repeating

    Review

    If your Facebook news feed is anything like mine, hashtags swarm the screen:

    #FreddieGray #JusticeForFreddieGray #BlackLivesMatter #Baltimore #BaltimoreUprising #BlackSpring #MNRiseUp...

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  • What do you know?

    Review
    There’s a moment early on in For the Loyal that made me fear I was about to watch a promising...
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