To theatre artists in this bleak time: we all remain artists. Your work continues to reverberate while our stages are silent. Letโs store up, read, watch, witness because there will be a harvest ahead. I am so grateful to the artists who enrich my theatrical hibernation.
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)
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.
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 McNallyโs plays will outlast you. Thanks Terrence for all youve given us. Peace.
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.
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!
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.
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 wonโt see this movie even if ya paid me all the $ in the...
Iโm staying true to Elizabeth Warren down to the last vote collected. Period. She is the most worthy candidate. Sheโs the President I deserve. I also deserve watching Kate McKinnon impersonate her for the next four years. Join me.
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.
I always assume if I donโt get a new play, it is because of my own blindness, and not the writerโs fault. Simply say, I donโt get it. Sorry.
Instead of lashing out from our own weaknesses. Critiquing is a responsibility and we have to do no harm.
Sad about K-POP closing. I donโt come into NY often, hoping to see it later in the run. Many shows are struggling: a tone deaf biased review from NYT doesnโt help. Stop throwing away talent from artists of color&women.KPOP: feel prideโyou stirred the stale air of the G White Way.
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!)
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.
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?
After a rabbi said the Kaddish for the children who died at the border, a woman cantor sang โRaise a glass to Freedomโ from Hamilton. Central Falls, Rhode Island.
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)
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!
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.
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.
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!
Last thoughts: we are talking a lot of the moment when Lady Gaga said โI 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.
McConnell, you putz: you announced you will vote for RBGโs replacement just hours after her death. So as soon as I hear of your passing, Iโm not gonna wait before I dance.
Arguments, or thought, are only 1 element of drama. Many plays feature character, or music, language, plot, or spectacle. FOR COLORED GIRLS. Caryl Churchillโs plays. Strindbergโs DREAM PLAY. Jose Rivera. Respond to the intention of the play. Please donโt dictate your own taste.
I assume the Tony Awards were not informed of Liz McCannโs encroaching death, because certainly they would have given her a lifetime achievement award. No woman producer has been so blessed. So isnโt it time to open up the boys club and give her this honor posthumously?
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.
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.
Dear Principal Tina Wilson, Superintendent Diana Greene:
As a teacher&administrator for 40 years, I know itโs 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
Iโve 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) Thereโs no control on the page of actors you may never meet. Format please!
With awe for the gifts of the cast, I didnโt 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.
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.
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.
Tonight is MA RAINEY Night! My favorite honor: when I won a certain Prize, I got a note from August Wilson.โWelcome 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.
Let me also say: anyone who goes after Senator Kamala Harris
With disrespect and stupidity....better not bring that around here. Weโve got no more time to waste on Republican bullshit.
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, youโve enriched us. Wish I could see it again. My thanks. The best theatre in NY.
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: โfloor it.โ New work awaits.
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. Peeleโs second film will get made, have a budget,
And be just as kick ass.
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.
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 Rowlingโs books. Suggestions?
I want to live in an America where I donโt 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.
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?
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.
Iโm 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.
Dear Joseph Epstein of the WSJ: about your comments suggesting Dr. Jill Biden not call herself by her earned credential (you called her โkiddoโ) In light of your expertise in misogyny, you have earned your honorific: Joseph Epstein, Schmuck. Signed Dr. Professor P Vogel to You.
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!
I so appreciate 2nd Stage simulcasting CLYDEโS 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!
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.
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: Iโm tired of White Male Victimization. The Whining. Trump/Mamet. Enough.
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!