He hinted to his friends that he was Shakespeare's bastard son. He plotted against Parliament. His actions during the theater ban were absolutely NOT a good model for us in the current pandemic. Except that, in another way, they are....
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Government Shuts Theaters: 1642
When theater came back, it came back with a roar; so how did it survive? How did the people who made it survive? ...
“Murderess” in New Mexico
Toad Hall Theatre of Las Cruces, NM will present "Murderess" for four performances over the next two weekends....
“Murderess” in Indiana
Evansville Civic Theatre will be producing four performances of Murderess in November as part of their Underground series. To celebrate, I thought I’d share the trailers from previous productions. Here’s the one from Theatre Unbound’s 2012 production in St. Paul: And here’s the one from Gamut Theatre Group’s 2019 production in Harrisburg, PA:...
TU 2.0
Career news: I have retired from the Executive Director position at Theatre Unbound after nineteen years with the company. TU has now survived all of its founders, and is set to embark on the next twenty years with new energy and flair. “Iphigenia and Other Daughters” by Ellen McLaughlin is running now – check...
Christmas in August, in December
I wrote this piece this summer, as part of the publicity for Theatre Unbound’s A Gertrude Stein Christmas. This seems like a good time to revisit it. May your holidays be happy, by design or happenstance!...
Notes from #WHN2018
Hard to choose a manageable number of snippets to share from the inspiring, info-packed Women’s History Network 2018 conference at the University of Portsmouth last week. Here are a few with obvious connections to my work and/or Theatre Unbound’s: The image above is from Victoria Iglikowski’s talk “RAIDED! What items seized in government raids...
Talking the Good Fight
Tomorrow I head to Portsmouth, England to attend the 27th Annual Women’s History Network Conference. 2018 is the centenary of the granting of the Parliamentary vote to some categories of women in Britain. I’ll be giving a paper called “Women Cannot Fight, Therefore Women Cannot Vote: Staging the Suffragette Bodyguard,” describing the development of...
Once more into the Good Fight
I’m just back from Chicago, where I went to attend the first table read of the Babes with Blades production of The Good Fight. It’s a tremendously sharp team, and I can’t wait to see what they create. I’ve done some rewrites on the script since Theatre Unbound produced it in 2012, largely based...
Remembering Agnes and Sean
In the last few weeks, two people died who were very important to me. Agnes Wilcox was the founder of Prison Performing Arts, a multi-discipline, literacy and performing arts program that serves incarcerated adults and children in Missouri. Before she started PPA, she ran TNT: The New Theatre in St. Louis. TNT’s project to...