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Paula Vogel

@VogelPaula

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Proudly unverified by gatekeepers at twitter. playwright. mentor. teacher. lover of cardigan welsh corgis. Founder of Bard at the Gate:

wellfleet, ma
Joined May 2012
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
4 years
To theatre artists in this bleak time: we all remain artists. Your work continues to reverberate while our stages are silent. Letโ€™s store up, read, watch, witness because there will be a harvest ahead. I am so grateful to the artists who enrich my theatrical hibernation.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
4 years
Sending prayers for Joe Biden and Kamala Harrisโ€™s health. Shield them Lord!
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
6 years
Could President Obama come to Pittsburgh?
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
4 years
This alone wins my vote.
@MSNBC
MSNBC
4 years
Joe Biden is expected to announce that he will create a task force to try to reunite 545 children separated at the border from their parents through executive order on day one of his presidency, a campaign source say. (corrects: 545 children, not 525)
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
4 years
someday there will be a critical reevaluation of LaBute and Mamet. They have been overpraised by white male critics who feel all giggly because they get to be in the tree house indulging in adolescent hatred of girls.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
4 years
Covid. You fucker. Just learned that it took Terrence McNally who has always been the soul of kindness. Well Covid you are a little f because McNallyโ€™s plays will outlast you. Thanks Terrence for all youve given us. Peace.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
2 years
I will say that when I hear men talk about protecting women, I get scared. Very scared.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
6 years
What is thicker than blood? NRA money.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
2 years
I love A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN. When I become Governor of Florida, it will be mandatory viewing for all high school students. And their parents. Please support this show.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
2 years
I am so glad to live long enough to see Ariana Debose use her gifts and the microphone to amplify gay pride. Thank you.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
2 years
It is happening! So happy and proud of this production.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
3 years
Thank you Amanda Gorman. You just saved the NEA budget. And started our healing.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
3 years
Well, my friends, I appreciate your support. The request for me to be verified by twitter has been denied. As long as my friends and family Continue to love me, I will survive!
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
5 years
I am so honored to be produced on Broadway again, thanks to MTC, Daryl Roth, Cody Lassen, The Dodgers &the Vineyard. So thrilled to work with Mary Louise and David Morse and Mark Brokaw again! And so grateful to all the productions in the past two decades that kept Drive alive.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
2 years
So happy to tell everyone: HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE now runs through June 12th at Manhattan Theatre Club!
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
4 years
I am amending my evening prayer. By using the word artist, words, people might think I am thankful for David Mamet and Neil Labute. I am not.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
6 years
Ya know, now that I know how the producers of All the Money In the World stiffed Michelle Williams ($80 bucks!)while paying Mark Wahlberg 1.5 million, I wonโ€™t see this movie even if ya paid me all the $ in the...
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
2 years
Today is a day of mourning.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
7 years
Please buy a ticket soon to Indecent, asking your support. This show is the best i got in me. Want to share while we can.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
4 years
Iโ€™m staying true to Elizabeth Warren down to the last vote collected. Period. She is the most worthy candidate. Sheโ€™s the President I deserve. I also deserve watching Kate McKinnon impersonate her for the next four years. Join me.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
4 years
We take back the senate. We elect Biden-Harris with an overwhelming majority. We pack the court until there are 13 justices. We pass voting rights. We legislate justice. And if you do not vote in this moment, I am through with you.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
3 years
I always assume if I donโ€™t get a new play, it is because of my own blindness, and not the writerโ€™s fault. Simply say, I donโ€™t get it. Sorry. Instead of lashing out from our own weaknesses. Critiquing is a responsibility and we have to do no harm.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
1 year
I am here to see this exquisite work of theatre but also to beat up nazis with my good arm.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
2 years
Sad about K-POP closing. I donโ€™t come into NY often, hoping to see it later in the run. Many shows are struggling: a tone deaf biased review from NYT doesnโ€™t help. Stop throwing away talent from artists of color&women.KPOP: feel prideโ€”you stirred the stale air of the G White Way.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
2 years
O to be a concealed weapon rather than a woman in America.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
2 years
I saw my last show of DRIVE last night. Could not bear to see it close today. My gratitude to all who resurrected it in 2022 at MTC will never end. I am cheering on David Morse and Mary Louise tonight (cheering on everybody in truth!)
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
3 years
Our democracy hangs by a thread. Good storytelling is paramount in wresting the narrative from charismatic liars. The Democrats have learned to be as emotionally truthful as they are factually truthful.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
3 years
I hope every show going forward films their show so all can see it across the country. AEA get with it! Every theatre should have a digital archive.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
6 years
What is at stake in the recognition of Get Out is a vital political aesthetic: negative empathy where white audiences watch ourselves in less than flattering light. Do we reward films that make me feel good or a film that makes me want to stand up for the good?
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
7 years
I'm grateful to all who expressed appreciation of our play Indecent. We close Sunday. My thanks&love to all who made the journey possible.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
5 years
After a rabbi said the Kaddish for the children who died at the border, a woman cantor sang โ€œRaise a glass to Freedomโ€ from Hamilton. Central Falls, Rhode Island.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
4 years
(I am so damn excited to begin rehearsals tomorrow morning for HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE that I may not sleep!)
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
2 years
One last thought: lynn nottage has the right to write anything. She is a lodestar to me; i am in her hands. There is always something she has to teach me. Must catch up to the trifecta (1 down 2 to go)
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
2 years
I am a lucky woman to be in the room today with amazing artists.
@vineyardtheatre
Vineyard Theatre
2 years
On Feb. 27, '97, Mary-Louise Parker, David Morse, Johanna Day appeared in the 1st public performance of @VogelPaula 's HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE, directed by Mark Brokaw at the Vineyard. Today, this extraordinary team reunites for the 1st rehearsal of its Broadway Revival! Congrats!
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
4 years
Iโ€™m scared. Please vote.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
6 years
Rewrites can wait. Indecent in s africa.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
4 years
Dear Stephen Sondheim, would you please have another birthday concert next week? I am so so grateful to each and every artist for making me feel unbound for the first time in weeks. Thanks for taking me to the world. So glad I live in the time of Sondheim.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
4 years
I voted for Elizabeth Warren. The best mind, heart, experienced and empathic soul in the race. I want to say that all of you who are gaming the election rather than voting your truth: I am not throwing away my vote. Know me by the woman I support who towers in the field.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
4 years
DRIVE will come roaring back when theatres re-open. In other news: think of all the first draft plays that will be written in the next few months....cheering you on my friends!
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
2 years
Last thoughts: we are talking a lot of the moment when Lady Gaga said โ€œI got youโ€ to Liza Minelli. I want to express my thanks and love to the women in my world who had my back. Hopefully, we got each other.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
6 years
Martyna Majok wins the Pulitzer! (That makes, if I may kvell, the fifth student I have had the honor to work with...) so deserved, Martyna!
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
2 years
As shitty as the world is right now, I saw Everything Everywhere All at Once. Iโ€™m feeling better. Itโ€™s going to be a classic.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
10 months
So honored!
@theatermania
TheaterMania
10 months
BREAKING: Jessica Lange, Jim Parsons, and @celiakb to star in @VogelPaula 's MOTHER PLAY on Broadway this spring at @2STNYC directed by @TinaLandau
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
7 years
To the cast and crew of Indecent: you are heros. I weep in Madrid w/joy to see you all again. You made our play rise from the ashes.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
1 year
may I ask if the comrade who is artistic director of the Public is taking a reduction in salary?
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
4 years
McConnell, you putz: you announced you will vote for RBGโ€™s replacement just hours after her death. So as soon as I hear of your passing, Iโ€™m not gonna wait before I dance.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
7 years
Daryl Roth is a warrior woman. She fought for Indecent. Please see it.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
3 years
Arguments, or thought, are only 1 element of drama. Many plays feature character, or music, language, plot, or spectacle. FOR COLORED GIRLS. Caryl Churchillโ€™s plays. Strindbergโ€™s DREAM PLAY. Jose Rivera. Respond to the intention of the play. Please donโ€™t dictate your own taste.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
4 years
About the Electoral College: we were framed by the Framers.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
3 years
I am taking Anne on a thrilling date! Cant wait for sunset! Quiara!
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
5 years
Indecent joy
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
3 years
I assume the Tony Awards were not informed of Liz McCannโ€™s encroaching death, because certainly they would have given her a lifetime achievement award. No woman producer has been so blessed. So isnโ€™t it time to open up the boys club and give her this honor posthumously?
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
2 years
What do you do with an unused acceptance speech? Twitter! So first: I am so humbled to be in the same Tony category with two trailblazing women in the American theatre: Alice Childress and Ntozake Shange.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
2 years
I was lucky: on the morning of my appt for abortion in boston MA i miscarried: 1971. I had money to buy food as a result. (The nonconsensual sex was not lucky) thank you massachusetts.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
1 year
Dear Principal Tina Wilson, Superintendent Diana Greene: As a teacher&administrator for 40 years, I know itโ€™s not easy. Buy why cancel INDECENT rather than structuring post-play discussions? It is a unique way to look at the Holocaust as well as gender and censorship&antisemitism
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
3 years
Iโ€™ve read lots of plays past 2 months. Why do writers obsessively describe the tempo, cut-offs, unspoken thoughts in an algebra before the play? It becomes fetishistic (I will glean it from your format) Thereโ€™s no control on the page of actors you may never meet. Format please!
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
2 years
Thank you Drama Desk for the incredible honor for best revival of a play!
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
3 years
With awe for the gifts of the cast, I didnโ€™t see TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD. I will not pay to see Rudin productions (Lucas Hnath the exception!) His poison has been well known. But to hire a white man to adapt Harper Lee instead of a woman? A BIPOC writer? We are all complicit.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
7 years
Brantley&Green 2-0. Nottage&Vogel 0-2. Lynn, they help close us down,&gifted str8 white guys run: ourplayswill last.B&G #footnotesinhistory .
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
6 years
Thanking everybody who supported Indecent and me this past year. I send love and wishes for a better 2018; that we keep our troth to America as a democracy.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
6 years
Donald J Trumpโ€™s mouth is not clean enough, not worthy to speak the name Martin Luther King.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
4 years
I am so grateful that INDECENT lives....my one foray onto Broadway that took years from these wonderful artists. They gave me something that has changed my creative DNA.
@IndecentBway
IndecentBway
4 years
We're so glad that INDECENT lives on on @BroadwayHD ! #ArtMatters
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
2 years
Today is Sarah Ruhlโ€™s birthday. A happy day!
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
2 years
I want to thank everyone for their kind wishes for HOW I LEARNED TO DRIVE at the Tonys.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
4 years
Tonight is MA RAINEY Night! My favorite honor: when I won a certain Prize, I got a note from August Wilson.โ€œWelcome to the Club. August.โ€ A greater prize to me than the Tiffany Glass. What a man.What a mentor. What a magnificent soul who opened so many doors for all of us.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
4 years
Let me also say: anyone who goes after Senator Kamala Harris With disrespect and stupidity....better not bring that around here. Weโ€™ve got no more time to waste on Republican bullshit.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
3 years
I always worry when people I love say: you Must See this. My expectations get too high. BUT: IS THIS A ROOM is magnificent. What a one-two punch with DANA H. Vineyard folks, youโ€™ve enriched us. Wish I could see it again. My thanks. The best theatre in NY.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
4 years
My thanks to the mothers who raised their children who became the playwrights with whom I worked. You have blessed me.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
2 years
Tomorrow How I Learned to Drive starts its two week countdown. I will never see their like; grateful to see them once more. Then onward: โ€œfloor it.โ€ New work awaits.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
3 years
Dear @AOC . Thank you. We will not forget, and we will not let others sweep your assault under the rug. Please take care of your heart.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
6 years
I saw GET OUT twice. And nothing this year gives me as much amazement as the construction of this film. This film deserves everything, but at least I know Mr. Peeleโ€™s second film will get made, have a budget, And be just as kick ass.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
4 years
I played With So Little To Be Sure Of to my brother Carl in his last months; we held hands while he listened. In grief and love I lacked words but Sondheim gave me a way to tell him. Wept again tonight. How grateful I am to feel: that is what Sondheim has given us.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
3 years
My godchildren are coming of age and I want to get them mesmerizing books on magic (age 7, age 3) but I will not pay a penny on the hideous JK Rowlingโ€™s books. Suggestions?
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
2 years
Banning this book is the definition of indecency.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
4 years
What a kick!
@lizovich
milanovich
4 years
the rain scene from Indecent but itโ€™s set to Rain On Me by Lady Gaga
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
7 years
To everyone who came who saw who tweeted: Indecent still lives thanks to you. My gratitude: i get to see it again! Come back!
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
7 years
My friends: Indecent is free to stream on PBS through Dec 1st only! It will be available in january from Broadway HD.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
2 years
So proud to have had Indecent produced in the James Earl Jones theatre (also place where The Diary of Anne Frank premiered) Yes!
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
3 months
Pinch me. The divine Jessica Lange, MOTHER PLAY, starts at the Helen Hayes on April 3rd.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
7 years
I feel like a kid! Excited to work on a new play first draft in chicago for first time in my life! Thanks goodman! In the room tomorrow.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
4 years
I want to live in an America where I donโ€™t have to spend hours watching dog videos and otter videos and all the other cute animal videos just to stop myself from meltdowns every damn day. Two Days.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
4 years
The world has lost its center. In other news I made pancakes for dinner tonight.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
4 years
When and if we survive the 2020 election we need to have a national day of mourning for everyone lost to Covid.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
4 years
Now is the time to read the remarkable PASS OVER by Antoinette Nwandu. When/if theatres reopen their doors, please produce this play.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
2 years
Basic questions about every republican senator who blocks gun control: do their children go to private school? How much of a security detail do they have so they do not fear domestic terrorists on their own bodies? How much in donations from the NRA have they each received?
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
6 years
Womenโ€™s March, National day of resistance! Guthrie Theatre, Minneapolis, INDECENT is on its way!
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
3 years
My prayer for the next mayor of New York: all of those empty spaces where corporations once perched? Please make artist housing, ret-controlled and affordable, to give stability to the essential workers who are artists. West Beth and Manhattan Theatre Plaza are not enough.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
4 years
Iโ€™m as proud of my vote for Warren as I am of my vote for Obama. She is the President I deserve. What a country: thanks to our racism, misogyny, homophobia and our worship of Mammon, we throw away the most magnificent people.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
3 years
Sending love to everyone in the community. Plagues shut down the theatres regularly (please read THE DROLL by Meg Miroshnik!) and still we persisted.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
7 years
Celebrating! Thanks PBS!
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
4 years
Dear Joseph Epstein of the WSJ: about your comments suggesting Dr. Jill Biden not call herself by her earned credential (you called her โ€œkiddoโ€) In light of your expertise in misogyny, you have earned your honorific: Joseph Epstein, Schmuck. Signed Dr. Professor P Vogel to You.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
6 years
KATRINA!!!!
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
6 years
Believe Women.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
2 years
OK, I am putting this out into the universe. I bought the mega millions lottery tickets tonight. If I win, I am going to put the money into an endowment for Bard at the Gate so it can become the artistic necessity it was born to be, 3 years ago. A splendid Season 3 is on its way!
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
6 years
Congratulations to The Bands Visit (I saw it 3x) what a gift to Broadway!
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
6 years
This is a thrill in playwriting. To see the plasticity on my page (the spectacle)reenvisioned by different artists. How lucky am I! Guthrie theatre.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
2 years
I so appreciate 2nd Stage simulcasting CLYDEโ€™S this week so I got to see it! Of course I would love to be there in person, but so inspired by the Next Best Thing: Broadway in a small New England fishing village in the dead of winter!
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
4 years
Dear Washington Post: thank you for making your Covid coverage available for those without subscriptions. May I ask why you do not allow access to information about protests in our streets? Police violence is also a public health emergency.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
4 years
And before I watch Kamala Harris (interesting we can have one women on this political stage but Not Spotlight on Broadway) I just need to say: Iโ€™m tired of White Male Victimization. The Whining. Trump/Mamet. Enough.
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@VogelPaula
Paula Vogel
4 years
I actually think something new as a fusion is being born with zoom and streaming. If we dont kill and dismiss it as it is being born (please are we still using absolutist ideas of Quality?) i was moved by Sat nite Seder. There are some great techniques to play with!
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