A friend asked me about what #musicals and plays her recently stage-struck daughter might want to see. I was full of ideas, and I found this excellent summary of #theater performances available on the various streaming services. Enjoy!
It's the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet, except that it's Romeo on the balcony, and Juliet is a male stagehand. And there's beer. #vintageAd#gay#beer#theater
One more weekend of shows, Friday & Saturday night, tickets going fast! It's half concert, half #theater (I guess it's a musical, then?) - and based on my novel. If you're in #Denver, come spend an evening with us.
Theatermacherinnen in Moskau wegen Terrorismusvorwurf vor Gericht
Im Jahr 2022 bekam "Finist, der lichte Falke" Russlands wichtigsten Theaterpreis und war umjubelt. Im Jahr 2024 stehen die Frauen, von denen das Stück stammt, vor Gericht. Ein Fall, der viel über das heutige Russland erzählt. Von Ina Ruck.
The new album is almost done, and the show opens this weekend! A hybrid #theater/live #music love-letter to #Denver, and a #queer reflection on friendship and change.
If you're in the area, come see what I do offline! :) Tickets are pay-what-you-want.
After an excellent sold-out theatre performance in Bremerhaven-Lehe last night, I was back home at 02.00 this morning and, as my body clock has total control of my waking life, awake, if not up, at 05.00. A theoretical lie-in of an hour.
Sunday is laundry, paperwork, relaxation, all of which are now well and truly underway.
#Biden: "Remember when #Trump was trying to deal with COVID, he suggested injecting a little bleach in your veins… he missed, it all went to his hair (Loud, extended laughter and applause)
(smiling) I shouldn't have said that... You guys are a bad influence on me."
On one Ctrm-Photo one could see the divergent #Contrast, between his pale, chalkcolored Hands and Fingers and his "suntanned" #Face full of #Theater#makeup. Somehow a #Cartoon of his own.
This line in "The Great Gatsby" (as Nick Carraway's riding the train from Long Island into New York City) is a transitional fossil record:
"My commutation ticket came back to me with a dark stain from his hand."
Because the modern verb "commuting" and nouns "commuter" and "commute"....
stem from names for multi-ride railroad/streetcar passes that truncated or "commuted" fare payments ("commute" here being the same verb we use in "commuted their original prison sentence").
New blog post about "The Great Gatsby", Nick Carraway's struggle to love, multiple new stage adaptations, what's hard about porting a story to another medium, anti-racism tradeoffs, and @jacob being a patient friend
Question for the theater folks: Is there any free open source software that helps manage auditions and casting, including paperwork, headshots, resumes, etc?
Searching for software for "casting" only returns stuff that lets you cast video to your TV.
Searching for software for "auditions" only returns Adobe Audition (an audio suite).
This is like finding a needle in a stack of needles.
As an extension of having really gotten into #audiobooks lately as somebody who doesn't drive and walks or rides the bus everywhere, the next nerdy thing I want to get into is radio plays. I found a collection of episodes of the original The Shadow series and have started researching BBC productions and radio play style podcasts too.
If anybody has any recommendations please let me! Especially into like #horror and #scifi
Actor Louis Gossett Jr., Oscar and Emmy winner, has died at age 87, according to his family.
AP reports: "Gossett broke through on the small screen as Fiddler in the groundbreaking 1977 miniseries 'Roots,' which depicted the atrocities of slavery on TV." He was the first Black man to win the best supporting actor Oscar for "An Officer and a Gentleman."
In any discussion of degrowth there will be at least one white man who brings up “overpopulation” as if degrowth isn’t about letting us all live on the planet with a sustainable ecological footprint.
Then the white man gets mad when you (well, I) bring up the fact that his line of thinking naturally leads to doing at least one U.N. definition of genocide.
@maruey@MisuseCase@BBCRadio4 One of the main points in Epic Theater (Brecht's theater technique) is to emphasize artificiality and constructed nature to make sure the audience and actors are less complacent, and that they go from the work with a new understanding of the world, and as a basis for action. So in Urinetown, you have actors breaking the fourth wall to address the audience, talking about how they are in a musical, etc...