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Hey, Arts Nonprofits: Words Aren’t Action, Sympathy Isn’t Empathy
Yes, we know you care. Yes, we know you “stand with” Black people. Your words are lovely. Now get away from the keyboard and start taking action.
Post-COVID, How Will Architects Design Museums and Public Spaces?
Four globally recognized architects and three major national museum directors will convene a conversation, on Zoom, on June 4 at 7pm.
Post-COVID Performing Arts: Like a Trip to the Car Wash
Restorationists expect a familiar process will always work: they’re about the car wash. Opportunists look to innovate: they're about getting the car clean.
Just Say Yes to Drugs! We Want Droxy! Even If It Doesn’t Work!
The virus is moving to rural America. Good luck.
An Important Memo From Arts Administrator Linda Richman
To my nonprofit arts fraynd and geshvister: email me, we'll tawk. Don't be a zhhlub and go schnorring for shekels. Don't ask -- yet.
Angry: The Laughably Battered State of America’s Soul
On this week's Burke's Law podcast, we also laughed. A lot. We'll be less angry and laugh more when Trump's American holocaust is finally over.
Mask? What Mask? On Being Free to Infect You and Me
On this episode, we also discuss Tara Reade -- and no, not Tara Reid of drunken exploits and "American Pie" and "Sharknado."
Life Is a Bleach and Then You Die
On Donald Trump's horrifying and deadly prescriptions for how to move America beyond the COVID-19 fake news hoax "crisis."
Dispatches from Dumb Donald’s Death Cult for Cuties
From Trump boot-licker Brian Kemp to MENSA candidate Ron DeSantis to ordinary folk in the Betsy DeVos death cult, it was another week in COVID-19 America.
In COVID-19 America, We All Looked Like Yaks
Even if President Coronavirus became our dictator, he'd be a terrible one because everything he touches dies. Just ask 30,000+ Americans.
Kushner and the Slim Suit Crowd Will Kill Us All
He's the Patrick Bateman of the Trump administration. And you know what that means.
Trump’s ‘Blood On His Hands’ as America Fights the Virus
On this episode of our Burke's Law podcast: The tragedy of COVID-19 deepens, but we are looking ahead to the rebirth of America that is still to come.
The Virus Theme Song: ‘I Have a Car, But Where Is The Road?’
On this podcast: The state of America amidst a pandemic virus, with a president whose stupidity has caused the deaths of who knows how many people.
It’s the End of the World As We Know It…
...and you feel like crap.
Pooper Pants POTUS and Coronavirus: The True Story
Republicans may have been exposed to Coronavirus? Thoughts and prayers! Thoughts and prayers!
Last Sunday We Said, “So Many ‘B’ Candidates, So Little Time”
Remember when Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Michael Bloomberg and Elizabeth Warren hadn't bowed out? Yeah, that was Sunday.
Bernie or Bust! More Debates! Nevada Caucus! Bloombots!
And if you've still never heard the comb story of Amy Klobuchar (where have you been?), now is seriously the moment.
Barra Grant: ‘Miss America’s Ugly Daughter’ No More
It's one thing to grow up, and grow insecure, as the child of a celebrity. It's another thing to transcend it all with forgiveness.
The Confession of Howard McGillin
It's not just actor-playwright Charles Busch offering a revelatory exercise in camp along Off-Broadway right now. Watch his co-star.
Immersive Theater Brings Legendary Nellie Bly Back to Life
Remembering a period of history that was downright cruel, especially in regard to women's health -- and the woman who exposed it all.
One Day, We’ll Need Nuremberg Trials for the GOP Senate
Moscow Mitch and Leningrad Lindsey have altered the co-equal branches of government forever and given America a dictator. What should happen to them?
If Stalin Had a Least-Favorite Musical, Would This Be It?
"The Glorious Death of Comrade What's-His-Name" is based on a 1928 play, "The Suicide," by Nikolai Erdman, who was later exiled to Siberia.
How Duke’s Interdisciplinary Dance MFA Is Delivering
An update on the inaugural class of Duke University’s two-year MFA in Dance: Embodied Interdisciplinary Praxis.
The Week When Adam Schiff Changed (Some of) America
Now on the Burke's Law podcast: In years to come we will want to look back and understand what caused this national cancer called the Republican Party.
As The Impeachment Turns (America’s Stomach)
Have the powers of the Presidency reached a tipping point or do we simply have a incompetent criminal in the White House?
On Our Podcast: Whew, That Was A Close One!
Donald "Impeached Forever" Trump almost blew up the planet, but darling Harry and Meghan and their hasty "Megxit" fortunately saved the day.
Happy 2020! On Our Podcast: Earth Goes Kaboom, Thanks to Trump
Thanks to Trump, our planet is set to turn into a cataclysmic, apocalyptic political and military disaster. Happy 2020! And welcome to our weekly podcast.
Marlon Brando: Hollywood’s Complex, Conflicted Cassandra
All else aside, writes William J. Mann, the actor was "a voice in the wilderness warning about the celebrity culture he spied coming down the tracks."
In Dark Horse Race for an Oscar, Robert Moses Parts NYC
How the surprisingly under-the-radar Ed Norton film "Motherless Brooklyn" represents the very best of contemporary American neo-noir.
What You Can Do Today to Help Artist Immigration
Two petitions could move the needle before the American government creates a worldwide catastrophe for artist immigration.
Rohrwacher and Rohrwacher: Cinema’s Wonder Women
"We do not feel the need to create a border. Our relationship is natural."
The Era of the Epic Failson
On the eve of impeachment, the emergence of a new and horrific sociological trend will make you even sadder for America and the world than you were before.?
Hey, Arts Programmers: Um, There’s an Election…
Have you heard about the election? I mean, it's all over the news. And are you factoring the election into your programming?
In ‘Halfway Bitches,’ Playwright Guirgis Goes All the Way
This is two-act, two-hour-and-40-minute political issue to which attention must be paid.
In ‘Greater Clements,’ a Playwright Mines Lesser Days
Judith Ivey appears at the center of a few, very individual stories of certain troubled Americans -- and a much, much larger American tragedy.
Artists First? Charting a Future for the American Theater
By the time our theaters reopen, which artists will be left standing? Let us revisit the ancient notion of the acting company.
HIGHLIGHTS
Hey, Arts Nonprofits: Words Aren’t Action, Sympathy Isn’t Empathy
Yes, we know you care. Yes, we know you “stand with” Black people. Your words are lovely. Now get away from the keyboard and start taking action.
And I Thought, ‘Something Just Broke’
Systemic change will be difficult until we cut out and complete irradiate the Trumpist cancer from our diseased body politic. So we fight.
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Artists First? Charting a Future for the American Theater
By the time our theaters reopen, which artists will be left standing? Let us revisit the ancient notion of the acting company.
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And I Thought, ‘Something Just Broke’
Systemic change will be difficult until we cut out and complete irradiate the Trumpist cancer from our diseased body politic. So we fight.
