MARK BLANKENSHIP
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Is It a Woman’s Duty to Tell People Off?
Set on a houseboat that’s floating in the Thames in 1911, it uses wry epigrams, a feisty heroine, and a drunken dinner party scene to make a progressive argument about the social role of women. Though playwright Harold Chapin died in 1915, it’s easy to imagine his insights being used as rebuttals against certain political candidates who have recently made headlines for taking cheap shots at the la
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You’ll Never Forget This, So Don’t Even Try
Anna Ziegler’s new play stages inescapable memories
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WATCH: Meet Project Theater
Meet Project: Theater , where multi-talented artists tell multi-dimensional stories in theatres and bars. This video features Project:Theater leaders Joe Jung and Jessi Blue Gormezano, as well as the artists Jennifer Logue, KJ Sanchez, and Marcus Denard Johnson.
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Let’s Talk about The Flick Like We Do at the Bar
Welcome to the first episode of Pour Me Another, a web series created by TDF and Samuel French that talks about theatre like we do at the bar. To read a companion essay about The Flick, the play discussed in the video, just go here. To lean how the star of the Off Broadway production […]
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Do You Want to Know What Your DNA Says About You?
Genes get personal in Informed Consent — The advance of science often means the recession of mystery. The more we learn about how the world operates, the less we need myths to explain what we can’t understand or superstitions to dictate how we behave.
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Something Unsettling Is Happening Upstairs
Perfecting the realistic (but creepy) tone in Annie Baker’s new play — There’s something a little… off about John , the new Annie Baker play that’s now at Signature Theatre.
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What’s Next for Theatre Fans With Disabilities?
Lisa Carling on the future of theatre accessibility
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There Was More to Helen Keller Than You Know
A new play uses Keller’s own words to tell her story
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WATCH: Meet New Ohio Theatre
Meet New Ohio Theatre, where independent theatre companies always have a home. This video features New Ohio Artistic Director Robert Lyons, as well as artists from The Assembly , The Drunkard’s Wife, The Mad Ones, and Rady+Bloom Collective Playmaking.