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Professor of Theatre and Performance Studies "I forget what eight was for."

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NO KINGS MEADVILLE · No Kings **In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption from Trump and his allie...

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS MEADVILLE” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

11.06.2025 18:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Adam and Eve gettin' shown the door! - Monreale.

13.05.2025 14:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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It Was an Ambush Friday marked one of the grimmest days in the history of American diplomacy.

The US President is an international terrorist.

01.03.2025 18:10 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Confession: I teach courses in acting and regularly work with performance ensembles. I hate Zip-Zap-Zop. Also, I kind of suck at it.

04.02.2025 18:09 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"Once in a while you get shown the light...." Bousson, NW PA.

21.01.2025 02:34 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

*clutches pearls*

15.01.2025 14:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Years ago, I saw an especially interesting Williamstown adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet" that featured his music.

30.12.2024 15:08 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bousson Pond in Northwest Pennsylvania.

Bousson Pond in Northwest Pennsylvania.

December and 60-something in NW Pennsylvania. I feel sort of...betrayed.

28.12.2024 20:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Holiday Songs And Lullabies Shawn Colvin · Album · 1998 · 14 songs

Shawn Colvin's "Holiday Songs and Lullabies" is a perfect album. It beautifully straddles nostalgia, pathos, longing, and redemption. It was a favorite when my kids were little-little and some 20+ years later always looked forward to each December.

22.12.2024 02:25 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I'll donate the hundred bucks to our local Dr. King scholarship fund.

01.12.2024 17:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I got an unexpected check for $100. Some simple sleuthing revealed it's via E___ M___. I never signed one of his petitions targeting Pennsylvanians, although for many years I've registered voters, canvassed, and phone banked on behalf of Democrats. Fishy.

01.12.2024 17:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Your students are assuming the GOP reads? ;)

21.11.2024 15:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Your play is powerful and sadly has even more to say now about justice and oppression than the production I saw back in August. All good wishes to you and your collaborators.

19.11.2024 12:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This summer's Chautauquah production was searing and I couldn't stop thinking about it. And, you were utterly brilliant! Thank you.

18.11.2024 23:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Sorry I will miss this, but am sure you'll be brilliant!

18.11.2024 21:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Morgantina, Sicily, 300s BCE. Many contemporary theatres allow patrons to name a seat. This fellow purchased a row: "Archelas, son of Eukleidas, [gave this] to Dionysus."

18.11.2024 14:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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One of my favorite things is musing on the possibilities of theatrical art while in a near-deserted theatre. Tindari, Sicily.

18.11.2024 00:55 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

More room for souvenirs?

14.11.2024 17:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Greatest television adaptation ever?

12.11.2024 20:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0