Caissie Levy is Diana Goodman in Next to Normal, a Tony® and Pulitzer Prize-winning exploration of family, mental illness, loss, and grief. During celebrated seasons at London’s Donmar Warehouse and ...

Existence of phrase – to describe content intended to make you angry – shows people are aware of manipulation tactics used online, says Oxford Dictionary publisher Good news for those who find their blood pressure rising as they scroll through their online news feeds: the Oxford English Dictionary’s publisher has highlighted the term they might need to describe how they often feel, naming “rage bait” as its word of the year. According to the Oxford University Press’ analysis, use of the phrase has tripled in the past 12 months. Continue reading...

Gigglemug’s musical revisits 1991’s cake-or-biscuit VAT dispute, John C Reilly gets romantic and Beauty and the Beast rock out

sarahdeutsch.designsDoing costuming research I’ve gotten more into the general history of the aids crisis and wanted to share some of what I’ve learned. Highly recommend the gentrification of the mind by Sarah Schulman and I’m grateful to the friend who lent it to me several years ago for the accidental gift#musical #musicaltheatre #rent #lgbtq

サイモン・ラッセル・ビールやジェレミー・アイアンズ、ベン・ウィショーらがT・S・エリオットの作品を朗読したイベント「Homage to T.S. Eliot」についてざっくりまとめました。ちょっとゆるめです。

A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter The playwright Tom Stoppard, whose playful erudition dazzled the theatregoing world for decades, has died aged 88. One of a select band of writers from any discipline to earn his own adjective – “Stoppardian” – in the Oxford English Dictionary, he delighted in the most improbable juxtapositions: philosophy and gymnastics in Jumpers (1972); early 19th-century landscape gardening and chaos theory in Arcadia (1993); rock music, dissident Czech academics and the love poetry of Sappho in Rock ’n’ Roll (2006). Continue reading...