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A surprising amount of "The Three Musketeers" is spent describing a series of fairly complex and abstract signing systems, but I can't find any writing about it! If you know much about Dumas or the history of French sign language(s), won't you help? www.thechatner.com/p/but-said-g...

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One of the hardest things about writing a novel is carefully doing out the backstory, slowly building the plot, weaving it all into a careful tapestry bit by bit. Opera is like HI SO ANYWAY THE DUKE'S LOST SON ISN'T DEAD, ALSO THAT GUY THERE IS THE BADDIE.

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Look, I'm not going to say absolutely DON'T do this because how you choose to fight the fascists is your call... But KNOW what the risk is your taking, which in this case, is a potential False Claims Act violation which hits you with Treble damages...

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I wrote about Emilia Pérez and some of the specific ways in which everything is fine and we have no problems as a society

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@isaacbutler.bsky.social it's not quite as cool as making it into a Super Bowl commercial but the Method was a LearnedLeague question yesterday (with an unusually high 95% get rate!)

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"Woke just means you give a damn about other people." — Jane Fonda accepting the Life Achievement Award at the SAG Awards

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I really can’t second this recommendation strongly enough, it’s one of a very small number of movie scenes I can’t even talk about without struggling not to cry

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Some people seem a bit confused so let's talk a moment on what Great Man Theory is, why I think Silver is blundering into it and why it doesn't work. The key thing here is fundamentally it is two propositions that come as a 'package deal' - reject either and it isn't Great Man Theory. 1/

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"Jane Austen's Bookshelf" spotlights eight women writers, largely lost to history, who influenced the English novelist.

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Dear Manager, I have: 1. Stuffed the dailies in my shoes 2. Strummed ukuleles 3. Sung the blues 4. Seen all my dreams disappear 5. But I'm here

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The BBC radio broadcast of Opera North's 2025 presentation of Weill-Lerner's Love Life (that will be the basis for the show's first-ever cast album) is available to stream. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Wow the German exit poll

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San Francisco, 2025: you go to a modernist hacker house up an unfamiliar hill to attend a house party to raise funds for a new play about an AI company, and as you leave a Cybertruck zooms by, well over the speed limit, like a dumpster out of hell

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I'm drawing inspiration from this 1941 news photo of people scaling the outside of 26 O'Farrell Street in San Francisco to tear down the Nazi flag outside what was then the German consulate. #SanFrancisco #resist

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I wish I could remember who recommended this @thisamericanlife.org episode to me—I've had it bookmarked for a long time & finally listened—but the segment where Teller talks about trying to devise a dramatic arc & deeper meaning for a new magic trick resonated w/ me so much as a playwright

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hey! me & @lollardfish.bsky.social wrote this piece for @slate.bsky.social about what's hot in 2025, because it's the Middle Ages! we see a retreat to the medieval as a (tacit) act of resistance against techbro authoritarianism. find out why... please read and share #medievalsky

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re: the "Kavalier & Clay" opera by Mason Bates that got announced yesterday… since I once wrote an essay (below) on how Bates' "Steve Jobs" draws upon Sondheim's "Sunday in the Park", I wondered "is there a Sondheim musical that can provide the template this time around?"

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Books designed to be read only by human eyes are different from books designed to be read by machines, which is why Google will tell you that the phrase “shake my booty” can be found in an 1863 English translation of Don Quixote.

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In many ways it's fitting that the showdown between monarchy and democracy ends up being over NYC congestion pricing. Cities are where the power of kings were first challenged, and few things are more fundamental to government than control of public space. The cameras are staying on!

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Terry Pratchett had this one nailed in Feet of Clay we don’t do kings here

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Here's one small thing to look forward to: An opera of THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY coming to the Metropolitan Opera in September. www.metopera.org/season/2025-...

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The book I’m currently working on (“The Perfect Moment”! lol for it in 2026!) is about the last time that there was a sustained assault on American arts and culture by the Right. So if I may, here are the two big things every mistake the arts/culture world made during this period had in common:

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This is perhaps not an ideal time for NASA to have redefined its primary mission as "track down and destroy all copies of the movie Hidden Figures".

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This is the first I've heard of this movie but I'm so here for it. (ME AND ORSON WELLES was an underrated gem imo.)

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🌨️🪽🌨️🪽 Angel of the Waters, Central Park, 2.15.25

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I hope America is as lucky as the delta jet - everyone survives but the right wing explodes

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I’m currently in the middle of Gaudy Night!

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Philip Guston: “I go to the studio every day because one day I may go and the Angel will be there. What if I don't go and the Angel comes?”

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our most reliable recession indicator is that Lady Gaga has released a song where the hook is primarily composed of random syllables again

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School play gets canceled for "inappropriate content". In response students write [REDACTED], their own anti-censorship play skewering the school district, sells out performances, and ultimately takes gold at the Lenaea High School Theatre Festival. www.kqed.org/arts/1397192...

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musk : election :: rasputin : hemophilia

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she also popularised the term bug for errors in computer code, famously because there was a moth in the machine

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had a strong cocktail & then called out a Stanford prof who had confused the R&J balcony scene with the parting-at-dawn scene, happy Valentine’s Day to me 💕

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As Trump takes over the Kennedy Center while decrying "woke" art, and the Muskovites remove LGBTQ history from the web, I thought I'd share some photos of me in recent years playing queer characters in queer plays. I'm proud of this body of work. We will not be erased. #LGBTQ #Theatre

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