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Overthinking Your Audition
“Have some questions; make some decisions and be ready to change them.” English actor, director, National Campaign for the Arts chair,...
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Mar 21, 20192 min read


There's a New Sheriff in Town
Is it okay for a white person to comment on a cultural trend initiated by the black community? In this case, I think it is alright...
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Mar 19, 20191 min read


The Skate Girls of Kabul
“It’s hard not to think of Afghan girls skateboarding as an unlikely clash of cultures. But when you see these children tearing around...
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Mar 18, 20191 min read


The Art of The Bag Lady
“Ruby Silvious is internationally recognized for her miniature paintings and collages on the used tea bag. On January 3, 2015, she...
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Mar 14, 20191 min read


Queen not Queen
Big thanks to Alan Jacobs (https://ayjay.org/) for introducing me to this video through his excellent newsletter - Snakes & Ladders. "If...
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Mar 12, 20191 min read


No. 54 Still Crazy: Annie Proulx
I saw my favorite American writer in the grocery store last night. Annie Proulx was pushing a grocery cart and choosing salsa. I...
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Mar 11, 20192 min read


Girl Trouble Will Not Be Told
The greatest rock n roll band on the planet just celebrated 35 years together. Last night, at a sold out show at Tacoma's Alma Mater, my...
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Mar 10, 20192 min read


Theatre Critic Helen Shaw Can Write
"In Harris’s cleverest dramaturgical gesture, the old shorthand for innocence is changed: the melodramatic heroine’s blushing whiteness...
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Mar 8, 20191 min read


Carol Ann Duffy: The Voice Sound
"To be any nation's poet laureate in the 21st century requires extraordinary broad empathic range." -- Shakespeare & Co. Podcast Work...
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Mar 7, 20191 min read


The Cast Photo We Need to See
For my future artistic endeavors, I am driven by my desire to do good with what I do well -- THEATRE. This photo by Ingrid Pollard for...
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Mar 6, 20191 min read


No. 49 Two Books, Same Title
“People who don’t read or write poetry always hold it in very high regard.” -- Nick Laird I’m a Zadie Smith fangirl. I love the poems of...
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Mar 5, 20191 min read


The Goldmine of Female Authors
“Welcome to Backlisted. The podcast that gives new life to old books.” A couple years ago, I was at a party where there happen to be a...
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Mar 4, 20192 min read


03.03.03 -- The Lysistrata Project
My weekly look back at the feats The Paradise accomplished. Tonight I signed the SHUNPIKE fiscal sponsorship contract giving me the...
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Mar 3, 20192 min read


Pattie's Top 10 Cultural Hits of February
6 - 10 in no particular order. 6. Dreaming Murakami -- DM is a documentary about Mette Holm the Danish translator of Haruki Murakami's...
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Mar 2, 20192 min read


Pattie's Top 10 Cultural Hits of February
In no particular order. 1. We get a taste of Isabelle Huppert’s turn as a whacked out collector of purses in Neil Jordan’s Greta with...
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Mar 1, 20192 min read


No. 44 A Stirring Opening
To those actors and actresses, designers, directors, playwrights and theatre technicians who as artists or students (and often in both...
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Feb 27, 20193 min read


Twitter Thread from a Sage Playwright
Lauren Gunderson (@LaLaTellsaStory) is the most produced playwright in America. She doled out some wise advice on Twitter this week about...
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Feb 26, 20191 min read


Inventor of Gaffer Tape has Died
"Gaffer tape (also known as gaffer's tape or gaff tape as well as spike tape for narrow, colored gaffer tape) is a heavy cotton cloth...
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Feb 25, 20192 min read


Rooms and Houses Built Only for Tea
“It would be a tearoom that served as a work of art.” -- NYT February's New York Times’ T Magazine features the artist Hiroshi Sugimoto...
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Feb 24, 20193 min read


A Home for My Mind-y Unwind-ies
Is a visual reference for my mind palace a good idea? A few months ago I started using the free version of https://milanote.com/ to...
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Feb 23, 20192 min read
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