William and Lizzie were destined to meet.
"An overwhelming rebuke to the flippant scoffers who are ignorant of the ever-increasing power of the great theater iconoclast.”
"Forasmuch as many plays formerly acted do conteine severall prophane, obscene and scurrilous passages, and the women’s parts therein have been acted by men in the habit of women, at which some have taken offense, we doe likewise permit and give leave that all the women’s parts may be performed by women." Now THAT's what I call a patent!
In 1603, Okuni made her great innovation, appearing in drag as a kabuki-mono, in a comedy sketch where she flirted with a woman played by a man in drag.
In Mantua, Italy, in the 1560s, actor/managers Flaminia and Vincenza ran rival companies attracting passionately devoted fans. Then they got that invitation from the Duke.
In Yuan Dynasty China (1271-1368), women frequently appeared onstage – in fact, it’s likely that most Yuan Dynasty actors were women.
The first known playwright in Christian Europe was Hrotsvitha, a tenth-century German nun.
For the first time in years, I'm involved in a show for the Minnesota Fringe.
The cross-stitch picture I submitted to the Textile Center members’ show was picked to travel to the Carnegie Art Center in Mankato. The Carnegie is a visual arts space lovingly adapted from a turn-of-the-twentieth-century Carnegie library. It was a thrill to have my picture hanging with other work I admire. (Mine is at the far...
I have an embroidered picture in Textile Center's member exhibition this year.