the empty space

Dan Rogers directs theater (and sometimes writes about it)

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Christmas (Noel) - Salvador Dalí

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Good art and photography follows?

Anyone have good ones? I use this pretty much purely for image research now.

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A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, Starring Gillian Anderson & Ben Foster to Be Broadcast Live in Cinemas

[theatricalmumblings-blog]

GILLIAN.

[bignazo]

The BIG NAZO Intergalactic Mobile Creature Band covered territory while in Ontario, Canada for the Ottawa BluesFest July 4-10, 2014.

Photos: David Lee Black

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do you actually think that gay playwrights are underrepresented in the mainstream theatre?

I think it’s getting better (TM), but there’s still a way to go.

First,the top 10 most-produced playwrights in the 2012-2013 season (TCG doesn’t seem to have the 2013-2014 info yet):

David Lindsay-Abaire, with 19 productions     

Matthew Lopez, 15

David Mamet, 15

Donald Margulies, 15

Bruce Norris, 15

August Wilson, 14

Katori Hall, 13

Brian Yorkey/Tom Kitt, 13

David Ives, 11

John Logan, 11

Ken Ludwig, 11

I see two gay playwrights there. (And only one woman and only two living playwrights of color. But you asked about gay playwrights so I’ll stop short of talking about how lousy THAT is.)

Then, the top 14 plays produced last year, also from TCG:

Venus in Fur (22) by David Ives

Clybourne Park (16) by Bruce Norris

Good People (14) by David Lindsay-Abaire

Other Desert Cities (13) by Jon Robin Baitz

The Mountaintop (13) by Katori Hall

4000 Miles (12) by Amy Herzog

Tribes (12) by Nina Raine

Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (11) by Christopher Durang

The Cat in the Hat (8) adapted by Katie Mitchell from Dr. Seuss

Detroit (7) by Lisa D’Amour

God of Carnage (7) by Yasmina Reza

Red (7) by John Logan

The Whipping Man (7) by Matthew Lopez

Water by the Spoonful (7) by Quiara Alegria Hudes

This is definitely a more diverse list, but if we’re looking specifically at gay playwrights, there’s 3 out of 14. All men. I’ll be interested to see the most-produced playwrights in 2013-2014, because it really does seem like there’s a shift going on.

Now stop asking me questions that I can’t reply to with a flippant comment or a GIF! (Just kidding, thanks, this was interesting info to crunch.)

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Gaetan Henrioux.

Drug fueled, erotically charged paintings and illustrations by Gaetan Henrioux:

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Angela Deane's altered ghost photographs make us all warm and fuzzy inside. 

[lazenby]

I have a sense of myself as trapped between tremendous potential and a stultifying sense that if I don't have a relentless and sustainable passion, and now, I'll be doomed to mediocrity. This feels like the malady of my generation, stalled at a critical precipice, and it's hitting me hard. How do I negotiate what I feel is a significant talent with both momentum and a gentleness with myself? How do I sustain momentum when I am desperate for the rest of direction?

by not thinking of yourself as part of a cohort. comparing yourself with anybody, even the implicit comparison you’re making between yourself and me by asking me what I think, that’s poison. you either have the native courage to step off into your own freak expression or you’re going to be asking people for permission the rest of your life.

the secret is that not only will they never grant it, but they don’t really care in the first place.

no one cares, and it’s up to you to bend that indifference into something liberating. 

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Neil LaBute, Age 7, Ladder 5 Elementary, Spokane Washington

  Copyright 2013 A. Frost

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"Let’s Draw a Car and then Let’s Draw Batman"

A comics essay by Lynda Barry

Illustrations retrieved from materials discarded by participants in Lynda Barry’s writing workshop at The Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Fall 2013

[sexologist]

Dear Society,

If you think a woman in a tan vinyl bra and underwear, grabbing her crotch and grinding up on a dance partner is raunchy, trashy, and offensive but you don’t think her dance partner is raunchy, trashy, or offensive as he sings a song about “blurred” lines of consent and...

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Bus Stop by William Inge. My 1st year studio project, featuring the Brown MFA Acting class of 2015. The audience flipped perspective for the 3rd act. We moved all of the furniture away in the 3rd act, leaving Virgil alone in an empty room with Grace watching overhead.

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Confetti test for Jedermann, in Salzburg, Austria.

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Daniel Ochoa

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Japanese artist Aki Inomata created this series of hermit shell cityscapes back in 2009, bringing to iconic skylines to the backs of these little crustaceans 

All photos courtesy of Ai Kowada Gallery

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Oh great, now there’s ANOTHER species that’s smarter than me