“WHY. DO. THEY. HAVE. TOES.”

“On April 1, 2020, singer-songwriter Adam Schlesinger passed away from complications from COVID-19. We wanted to take a look back at some of our favorite works of his.”

“No two singers are alike whatsoever, but as a singer and a student, I believe that some voice teachers are more helpful than others.”

“The unmitigated arrogance, that any mild inconvenience to their routines is more important than public health, is the real terror here.”

For a lot of those who work in the arts, these shutdowns are unprecedented in an industry that is already completely unpredictable. Here is a short list of things that you can do to help either yourself or peers during this time of crisis

“I have been doing this long enough to know that I will NEVER KNOW what the people behind the table feel or think. I have to trust the process and the journey.”

“I wish I could look back at my high school theatre program and have fond memories. But as I am currently writing this, I don’t feel fond of my high school theatre program anymore. I get a feeling of dread when I remember that my theatre teacher was found to be engaging in sexual misconduct with one of his students.”

“A colleague of mine often ribs me about being so enamored with the ensemble. He thinks I place too much emphasis on the shadow characters, the living props, the background, the wallflowers. He is 100% correct. “

“At the end of the day, people are filming because they love theatre and want to relive it. It’s well-intentioned but it can’t be tolerated, it’s too distracting.”

Larger bodies seem to be the last frontier in the push for greater inclusivity in casting. The topic is only beginning to surface in the theatre community. And this is why the casting in the current Broadway production of The Rose Tattoo rubs me the wrong way, like my thighs on a hot summer day.

Thankfully in 2019, awareness of blackface, brownface, and yellowface have been heightened to the level that it’s almost universally understood that donning them is wrong.

Yet some people are showing a more delayed response in understanding that.

Reports and pictures of an opera production with actors dressed in yellowface, are going viral on social media. The images are from the Knoxville Opera’s production of Madame Butterfly, which closed last weekend.

Since Angels premiered, Kushner has been considered an intellectual leader of the theatre. But with his lack of artistic discipline has also come a lack of intellectual discipline.