I intend to write a play about a (Lutheran) priest who is tortured to death for performing (illegal) same-sex marriages.

This idea comes from the dichotomy of the Lutheran clergy's ability to have same-sex relationships ("in sin") and yet be unable in most states in our Union to be have recognized marriages.

Many Christians do not know that their ( Read more... )

Medical Exam Room

The removal of a cotton swab behind a privacy curtain. NURSE pulls away the curtain revealing the sitting Mayor Imogen “JENN” Arcaddy. (We know who this is supposed to be but DO NOT do the voice!) The Nurse wears scrubs in layers, Jenn wears an examination gown.

NURSE

And, with that, ( Read more... )

The Circle Theatre's production of The Who's Tommy is the worst thing that's happened to The Who's music, the worst thing that's happened to theatre and one of the worst things that's happened to humanity; truly it has to be seen to be believed.

Rent is bourgeois because it exploits White Guilt which turns ordinarily rational, emotionally stable people (of any gender, racial or ideological idiom) into hysterical teenage girls (as not to insult any teenage girl, I mean specifically this:).

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Actually I think "White Guilt" is too narrow a concept to describe what is occurring and a more ( Read more... )

Yesterday (1564-1616)

So trivial and dim be the stage whence
spectacle trumps narrative and on speed:
we build good neighbors and a fence?
Iger’s Broadway grows cleanly like a weed.
O, what excuse will my poor Beast then find,
you say some Mary needs a line of blow?
Niel LaBute shows me the life of a mind;
That was a joke in case you did not know:

Ken ( Read more... )