Not sure about the "celebrated Canadian playwright" part (I'm defintely Canadian!), but great job by Misha Mustaqeem on this preview. "Boy Player" opens Friday, tix at westernedge.org.
Read more at: nanaimobulletin.com/2026/04/14/n...
#nanaimo #vancouverisland #theatre #theater #theatresky
To be henceforth named the Donald J. Trump Fugly Hole in the Ground.
Thanks to Western Edge Theatre for including “Boy Player” in its current season! The pics here are from the premiere last year. Since then, we’ve enjoyed the chance to build out the play theatrically, and in other ways too! Opens April 17. westernedge.org.
#theatre #theater
Director: Jonathan Greenway, Stage Manager: William Anderson, ASM: Kristal Atkinson, Lighting Design: Erik Tully, Stage Painting: Yvonne Vander Kooi, Projections Design: Ray Appel & Frank Moher, Graphic Design: Ray Appel. Muse: Diana Hart Moher. Opens April 17, tix at westernedge.org.
A boy stands on a stage before an audience looking into the distance, at a darkened skyline of New York City. Text reads, "Boy Player. A true story. Written and performed by Frank Moher. 'Moving, funny, everything that theatre should be.' 'Hilarious and heartwarming.' 'Wonderful.' Western Edge Theatre, April 17-26, Tickets: westernedge.org".
Thanks to Western Edge Theatre for including "Boy Player" in its current season! It's a solo show but, of course, even solo shows aren't really solo ... (1/2)
#theatre #theater #theatreSky #theaterBSKY #playwrights
...
When you hire an idiot to run your country. "The research firm Capital Economics estimated that if the Treasury is forced to issue refunds, the cost would run to about $120 billion, or 0.5 percent of gross domestic product." www.nytimes.com/live/2026/02...
March 28 will be the largest nonviolent protest in American history. Find your local No Kings event to stand up for our communities and reject Trump's fear and violence. app.sosha.ai/s/m9GnRlOG
A majority of cases will never be reported, either.
Hundreds of immigrants have reported sexual abuse at ICE facilities. Most cases aren't investigated
www.pbs.org/newshour/amp...
"I miss my school and my friends I feel bad since when I came here to this Place, because I have been here too long.”
From 9-year-old Susej F, detained for 50+ days.
www.propublica.org/article/life...
#Trump #ICE #childabuse
🚨BREAKING: Local Minneapolis police SWARM ICE protesters making mass arrests in front of ICE prison. One protesters forehead is gushing blood ⬇️
Theatre break. At ProPlay, we make plays that have been professionally produced available to read for free online, to encourage their further production. There's no fee to subscribe, and we don't charge to post a play or participate in production royalties. proplay.ws
#theatre #theater #playwrights
Theatre break: If you hate A.I., how do you feel about Ian McKellen as a hologram? (Spoiler: McKellen loves it.) Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/t...
#theatre #theater #TheaterBSKY #theatresky
Theatre break: New watch-at-home #theatre (which isn't really theatre at all, but never mind), including "Bat Out of Hell: The Musical," of which the composer says, "If you don’t go over the top, how are you ever going to see what’s on the other side?” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/t...
Except, perhaps, if they're hot enough to be on Heated Rivalry, Season 2.
if you haven't read jezebel's 2018 coverage of the listserv where 400+ "left-of-center" transphobic "journalists" methodically orchestrated the current moment, it's a good companion to the TNN interview: www.jezebel.com/private-mess...
Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.
This is the full 60 Minutes segment on CECOT Bari Weiss and CBS News didn't want you to see.
substack.com/@blueatlgeor...
News Team, Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier. I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity. Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one. We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we
have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient. If the standard for airing a story becomes "the government must agree to be interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast. We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state. These men risked their lives to speak with us. We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless. CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones.
We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it. When it fails to air without a credible explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet. I care too much about this broadcast to watch it be dismantled without a fight. Sharyn
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
BREAKING: CBS just yanked a 60 Minutes episode and slapped the word “postponed” on it like people are stupid. Trailer wiped. Segment gone.
This isn’t a delay — it’s a cover-up in real time. They’re protecting “someone”. Period.
“I’ve lived here for a long time, and I’ve never seen so many police cars.”
ICE’s occupation in Memphis, the largest Black-majority city in the country, has reshaped daily life, turning grocery shopping into a mission that risks one’s family being torn apart.
The President of the United States deleted this photo of the drawer full of photos with himself and Jeffrey Epstein from the DOJ's illegally redacted release of the files last night.
We are watching a cover up in real time.
This is file 468.
Theatre break. Zhao on her film Hamnet: "Not only did I feel it was a container for me to tell a great story, but also to explore my own inner ideas that I hadn’t allowed to come through, like many women." NY Times gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/m...
#theatre #theater #TheaterBSKY #theatresky
A genius. He did new things in #theatre, which is hard enough, but he also communicated new ideas through it, which is harder yet. That’s why his work had a reputation for being too “intellectual” (a sometimes fair assessment, often not), but he kept it up to the very end. A playwright’s playwright.
Theatre break: "To the argument offered by the show’s creative team that the setting is specific but the robots are 'universal' and 'ethnically undefined,' Craig replies, 'They’re not Roombas.'" NY Times gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/t...
#theatre #theater #theatreSky #theaterBSKY
Montage of 19 clips of Trump insulting, berating, demeaning and attacking female reporters over the past few months. Part 1.
#Theatre cleanse: "Before being accepted for the Theatre of Veterans programme, she knew nothing about theatre or dramatists. 'I knew Shakespeare was a dramatist, and that’s all.' That said, she is still not much of a theatre fan herself. 'I hate theatre.'"
www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/o...
Visual arts cleanse: "The hardest part for Lewis in the process has been letting go of her own attachment to the control and predictability of working with her hands. 'It’s been challenging to wrap my head around.'” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/a...
2. NYC
#NoKings 👑
Massive crowd in DC
Massive crowd in Times Square
It’s going to take ages to pay all these people
