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Wouldn’t it have been better for Timothee Chalamet– instead of apparently lying about his contract preventing him from speaking out about Woody Allen but doing an end run around the issue by offering his salary to advocacy groups– to have … Continue reading →

Even more than theater or movies, the milieu of ballet is highly tactile, highly sensuous as well as erotic. Abuses should be curbed; power asymmetries of every sort should be remedied. But let’s not make it something that it can’t–or … Continue reading →

After what happened in Bel-Air and Santa Barbara, how can so many of the oligarchs still believe that climate change won’t touch them?

In the summer of 1968, Diana Sands was singing and dancing and politicizing and loving. As we recount: “Sexual jealousy was as good a gauge of Diana’s affections as much as any lover’s. During the Hallelujah, Baby! tour, she demonstrated … Continue reading →

The insanely specious and myopic reliance on GDP as an unqestioned metric of well being is skewered by David Korten at Yes! Magazine “as a measure of economic activity, GDP is what it says it is: a gross number. It doesn’t … Continue reading →

the way a performer can change his or her appearance as much via thought as make-up. When Tallulah at thirty-six played Elizabeth in Maugham’s The Circle, a woman in her early twenties, she was able, friend and stage manager Stephan … Continue reading →

Lisa and I had one epigraph for People’s Artist that we thought was good. But there was a quote from The Brothers Karamazov that was in the back of my mind. Finally I suggested we exchange it.  Lisa read it … Continue reading →

I mean, this 1967 show is worth it just for the song “Talking to Yourself.” But it has so much more. It’s high-concept and just plain historic. Diana Sands took it on tour in 1968-69 and Steve and I have … Continue reading →

Whoever’s writing Minority Leader Pelosi’s stuff right now is good!

The Pentagon wants to be able to drop nukes in response to non-nuke attacks. Makes sense, right? Trump, of course is all in. He’s not only determined to overturn democracy here, but incinerate the world as well. On Democracy Now! … Continue reading →