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For years, I've been wanting to do site-specific theatre. Mostly, in really fabulous historic sites. And now it's going to happen - in...
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Surprise! (Forgotten Women of France)(Plus a Few Men)
Marie-Thérèse (above) was the daughter of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette of France. And the only member of the immediate...
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Women's History Month, 2022 - Catherine the Great
March 8. Catherine the Great, empress of Russia from 1762-1796, was in the headlines yesterday. News reports said she founded Odessa –...
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Women's History Month March 2022 - Diane and Catherine
March 3. History loves black and white, especially where women are concerned. Madonna or whore. BFF's or arch-enemies. But we all know...
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Woman #1 Annie Edson Taylor (I Float)
(The roar of Niagara Falls. Lights up on Annie. She clasps an invisible heart-shaped silk pillow, addresses a crowd.) ANNIE Ladies and...
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Day 6 - Some Breadcrumbs
So where am I with making my musical, Oneida, happen on-stage by the end of 2020? Finding my way...day by day...making a meal out of...
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Day #5 - Trusting the Universe
I'm a little nervous. Because I'm not doing much today to move my musical "Oneida" forward. I'm experimenting with living in the land of...
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Day #4 - ReFraming
TODAY'S TIP I'd like to share a DAILY OFFERING so these posts can be of value to you, not just an accountability checklist from me. This...
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Day 3 - What Now?
My Miraculous Day 2 offered two paths to getting what I want: a development possibility that is the next step towards a production by the...
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Day 2 - It can't be this easy!
Yesterday morning I started my blog about birthing my musical "Oneida" by the end of the year - in ten months. Just like a pregnancy. I...
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Day 1 - Commitment, a/k/a Time to Have That Baby!
I'm terrified. Which is a good sign. Scary = growth. This blog announces a non-negotiable VOW to myself. I have been saying every day for...
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Stargazer
"Stargazer"
Pantoum #2 – July 19, 2019
The stargazer lilies are about to bloom -
Just as I'm going out of town
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The Pantoum Project
The pantoum is a type of poem that originated in Malaysia. It features quatrains with an ABAB rhyme pattern. Lines 2 and 4 of each...
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One-A-Days: One-Minute Plays!
It's 2am and they can't remember which hotel room they're in. Ever happen to you?
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Rex Reed - on the song Lovely Lies
REX REED - 5/29/2006 edition of The New York Observer Finally, it is with great regret that space limitations in last week’s issue forced...
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The Mistress Cycle - DC Theatre Scene
Beth Blatt and Jenny Giering have collaborated over the years and the ease and flow of the music and lyrics reflect the neat simpatico of...
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The Mistress Cycle - DC Metro Theatre Arts
...a delicately rendered musical about the harsh realities women have faced over the centuries when viewed as the "other" woman. View...
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Chicago Reader - Highly Recommended
"... The superb all-woman cast (including the marvelous Susie McMonagle) plays such real-life characters as Anais Nin, 19th-century New...
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Chicago Edge - Highly Recommended
"...A sensuous delight in every connotation of the word, it is no surprise that the production received a Jeff nomination for Best Revue...
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Chicago Free Press - Highly Recommended
"...Kurt Johns’ staging of this Apple Tree Theatre hit is itself performed on the stage of the Auditorium Theatre, sacred ground for its...
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