Gertrude Stein wrote this quote about Picasso, but it can be said about all kinds of visionaries. The best way to find out what issues society is dealing with is to see what new plays …
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Gertrude Stein Quote
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Arthur Miller Quote
As a kid obsessed with Marilyn Monroe, Arthur Miller first got my attention as her serious looking NYC playwright husband. Later in school he came up again when we read The Crucible, where I learned that …
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Jack Kerouac Quote
I could probably write an entire blog with Jack Kerouac quotes alone. He taught me about freedom, Buddhism, Dylan Thomas but most of all showed me that I wasn’t the first human to have mental torment …
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Anna Deavere Smith Quote
When reading Anna Deavere Smith‘s play Twilight about the 1992 Los Angeles riots, you see monologue after monologue of various people’s witnessed monstrosities and worries while underneath there is something glowing steady- hope. With every struggle, …
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Emile Zola Quote
I was once driving through Denver when I saw a bearded poet type in his front yard with tons of books on the ground. Skerrrrrr! Hipster Garage Sale, got to stop. Picked up some Greek …
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Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn‘s A People’s History of the United States is one of those books that should be mandatory reading for Americans – the world, actually. Learning to see things from different perspectives is so important, …
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Jean-Paul Sartre
As a senior in high school, I was chosen to direct a one-act play. Being the troubled introvert I am, I chose Jean-Paul Sartre‘s No Exit; a play about three people locked in a room …
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Happy International Women’s Day!
Ever since finishing For Her Own Good by Barbara Ehrenreich, I’ve been thinking deeply about women and their role as healers and how society can get back some of that. The book goes over 200 …
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