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“With similar disillusion over the disconnect between cause and effect, between reason and policy, and like so many others, I’ve cultivated what could be called a Covid garden of fruits and vegetables and flowers.”
“We’re flying blind here, enacting severe, cautionary policies in a void of data. And the lock-down policy itself may exacerbate the crisis – school closures in which kids return to, and infect, their grandparents.”
“At the beginning of rehearsals, the company sent out fake press releases saying that the play was being produced with the full support of the Kosovo government (it wasn’t), then added to the mayhem by announcing that there were only five copies of the script, that they had all been stolen, but the actors had memorized their lines, so all was well. By the time the play was produced, police had been called in to protect the theater, there were bomb threats, audience members took to the stage and shouted that the play was “anti-national” and funded by the Serbs, etc., etc.”
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“The atmosphere was hostile . . . Later, they tell us that all the documentation was correct but the visa that the American Embassy authorized us to be able to work in Los Angeles was not valid. (That statement was a lie, according to the American Embassy here in Barcelona.)”
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“Davis underscores this point by showing how profoundly the Hebrew books were influenced by their creators’ Arabic neighbors.”
This year’s Awards ceremony will be the culminating event of the 2019 Stage Raw/Play L.A. Theater Festival Weekend, September 6-9 at Los Angeles Theatre Center, and will involve readings of six new plays, and two colloquies.
This year’s Awards ceremony will be the culminating event of the 2019 Stage Raw/Play L.A. Theater Festival Weekend, September 6-9 at Los Angeles Theatre Center, and will involve readings of six new plays, and two colloquies.
This year’s Awards ceremony will be the culminating event of the 2019 Stage Raw/Play L.A. Theater Festival Weekend, September 6-9 at Los Angeles Theatre Center, and will involve readings of six new plays, and two colloquies, all to be announced soon.
“Passions soared. Screeds about art and commerce abounded, along with accusations: from the suppression of art to union busting. Tropes bounced off the stars. One would have thought this was happening in the 1930s, and that we were all trapped in Clifford Odets’s fist-pumping union play “Waiting for Lefty,” but in a production directed by Mel Brooks.”
