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punkeropercyjackson · 14 days

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Weirdboygirl Percy headcanons

(But it's almost entierly me just sharing my friends' because i'm a sap who wants them to be appreciated /lh)

When i say 'weirdboygirl',i mean it-Percy is transfem bigender and autistic with no masking ability based off canon subtext that borderlines on straight up text.He's also afrolatina/monoracial black dominican for the same reason and he's mostly femme but has a decent amount of masc thrown in there for gender fuckery and he's crustpunk with pastel/kidcore elements thrown in

He's a huge gamer who's got his own low cost setup and only dosen't do Lets Plays even though he has a vlog channel because with how he is that's setting himself up for getting viral meme'd

He thinks adult only shows and movies are absolute ass due to being too dark so he watches pg ones only including pre-schooler ones(Bluey is his favorite obviously)and he has no shame in it since he's not a freak about it

She listens to obscure podcasts and rambles about them and she's a part time artist thanks to her and Rachel being queerplatonic besties but she dosen't do grand materpieces and just draws weird shit and same for crafts

Her favorite musicians are nostalgic ex-weirdkid ones like My Chemical Romance and All Time Low and The Cheetah Girls and then it's shit like Everybody's Worried about Owen and The Cure and Meet Me @ The Altar and Metallica and a bunch of transfem artists and general genres they love are Lo-Fi Beats,Breakcore and Punk Rock

Her special interests are blue,video games,kidcore,cats and anarchy.Blue is not Percy's lifestyle but Percy's way of life,she plays only free games and uses an emulator for the rest,kidcore is a huge coping mechanism from her extremely brutal childhood,she employs a lot cat based things in their daily life and even naturally acts like a cat sometimes including a meowing vocal stim and she goes full force in Tales of Dead Seas,a Hoo one year later sequel that's about Percy dismantleing the greco-roman mythos world system starting with killing Zeus and things go up hill for everybody who's not a dickbag from there and this includes Percy gaining new powers even pre-deicide but actually having mentors this time and she actively helps out with activism in addition to all her direct action across all 5 books of her last official story

The only sea related things they love are because Sally does so she raised them in them all the time and they've got mixed feelings on them post claiming because of how awful Poseidon is but they very slowly reclaim it for themselves and the process is given big boost when their egg cracks as they use mermaid/seapunk aesthetics for presentation and their personality a little too and it gives them gender euphoria

They refuse to drink energy drinks that aren't blue colored so they have a whole stash of them and junk food too with a threatning note attached to it,their go to store is unironically Claire's and they made sure to beat the Hot Topic allegations by loud and proud announcing how much they hate them for being sellouts and fakeout freaks and they're neither a skater boy nor a surfer dude because ewww but a guitarist and a multitask helper at the Familia Jackson Beach Shack

He's also Nico and Hazel's eldest sibling figure and pseudo-dad that got them away from Hades forever and Sally legally adopted them so they all live together in the mortal world and stick together as a trio too in the mythos world.He's their caregiver but also their best friend and radicalized them and taught them how to be punks,Nico choosing tradgoth and Hazel pastel goth.Their relathionship is extremely intimate and equally silly but that dosen't mean they never had problems to unpack and fix-Siblings aren't perfect but real siblings are the ones who try to be anyway and don't expect eternal forgiveness regardless.That's what makes us siblings,not JUST blood

And they healed his inner child a lot just by hanging out with him and loving him and letting him take full responsibility in their best friendship and on the other end there's nobody who's helped Nico and Hazel heal and be stronger and be themselves like Percy has.They're eachother's whole world and multiverse and rubbed off on eachother significantly(Nico and Percy's love for video games,Percy and Hazel's artistry,Hazel and Nico's taste in food,all three of their love for kiddy things)and Percy helps Hazel with girls

He was Warrior Cats kid and gets back into it as an adult and loves it even more and yes,he roleplayed it his classmates during recess yet they pretended they hadn't and mocked and animalized him for years because how long his hyperfixation it is lasted and that's why he gave it up in his teenage years but returned to it and reclaimed the catlike behavior it gave him as autistic swag

Percy's five love languages:Humor,comfort,justice,unrestrained fun and diy'd gifts.All giving and recieving and none strictly platonic or romantic,Love is stored in the Percy

She knows how to diy so many things it's a running gag and includes things that don't exist,her biggest comfort characters are:Cookie Monster,Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy(she's a huge Flutterdash stan so she refuses to seperate them),Brandy's Cinderella,Shego,Cookie Nessa and Marina from Nintendo,Yang Xiao Long,Katara,Sonic The Hedgehog,Amy Rose and the Adventure Time Cast as a whole and her type is other autistic afrolatinos/afrolatinas who're pastel punk to her crustpunk

He (jokingly) kins Hobbie Brown and Gwen Stacy and looks like she could be Hobie's older brother

She acts and talks in ways people find offputting and strange but by now she's learned to stop being ashamed and happily embraced that she'll never be normal but that that dosen't mean she's not loved dearly and by so many people and realized that's what she truly wanted from the start instead of not being different from everyone else.Because she's the most awesome as all fuck person ever

RIZZ CITYYYYYYYYYY,HE'S FROM MANSHATTAN

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mixedkid-matchup · 1 year

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INTRODUCING THE MIXED KID MATCH UP!

tournament where you vote for your fav multiracial (or multispecies!) character(s)!

inspired by polls like: @blackandpinkbracket @blorbo-archers-tournament @blueandyellowbracket @ultimatepinkgirl @homoeroticbetrayal @adhdswagcompetition @autismswagsummit @beefy-babe-showdown (HIII) tagging @competition-list

twas not planning on taking submissions, BUT IF YOU HAVE SOMEONE I DONT ALREADY then send me an ask bc im too lazy to make a google form. (characters i have are below cut + rules)

Submissions will stop being taken on Thursday, March 9th @ 7PM MST Tonight at 7PM MST SUBMISSIONS CLOSED

Rules: 1. fictional characters only. i’d love to put myself on the poll for kicks but fr I don’t know how your fave youtuber would feel about being put on a tumblr poll lmao. 2. pjo characters do not count. their greek ancestry is not incorporated in dna (this is stated in the books, but there is evidence against it, like percy’s greek eyes, but this is a fantasy/mythology book so like whatever. also this is stated so the characters can date outside their cabin.) 3. you can submit more than one character but dont submit one more than once 4. my matches so far are color-coded based on anime character, cartoon character, comic/graphic novel character, live action character, and book character. so in the beginning i will match the anime ones together and so forth to keep it fair for at least the beginning. 5. dont submit the entire family in the poll. keep it to like a pair of siblings that are the focus or something. or the main character. 6. polls will last 24 hours because im impatient 7. you can campaign!!!!! TAG ME!!!!!! I’LL SHOW IT OFF!!!! 8. you do not have to be nice in the comments and tags idc!!! trash talk!!! have fun!! just dont like actually legit send death threats or slurs to people. in seriousness. and to people you dont know. Characters so far: - Tamaki Suoh (white-french/japanese) - Luz Noceda (afrolatine/black dominican) - Kipo (black/korean + mute/human) - Inuyasha (human/demon) - Miles Morales (afrolatine/puerto rican + black) - Hiro Hamada (white/japanese) - Glimmer (asian/??? whtever tf her mom is ig) - Damien Wayne (white/arabic) - Alex Russo (Wizards of Waverly Place) (white-italian/mexican) - Alina Starkov (white/asian) - Sabrina Spellman (mortal/witch) - Aquaman (atlantean/surface dweller LMAO WHY DID THE CREATOR SAY IT LIKE THAT) - Keith Kogane (galra/human) - Raven (human/demon) - Mark Grayson (human/vultrimite + white/asian) - Marceline (half human) - Scott Mccall (white/hispanic) - Steven (Steven Universe) (gem/human) - Marinette Dupain-Cheng (white/asian) - Cassandra Cain (white/chinese) - Alex (Totally Spies) (afrolatine + white) - Aster (The Witch Boy) (black/white) - Ginny (Ginny and Georgia) (black/white) - Wednesday (white/hispanic) - Mako and Bolin (LOK) (fire/earth bender) - Elisa Maza (black/indigenous) - Carter and Sadie Kane (black/white)

#if i simply say hispanic or asian thats bc i dont know the ethnicity specfically #and also w arabic bc idk what the Al Ghul's are. you can lmk tho #poll #polls #mixed matchup tag #tumblr bracket #biracial #multiracial #tumblr competition #bracket #tumblr polls #tournament #character bracket #character polls #character competition #character tournament #multispecies #bispecies

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paradoxfailure · 4 years

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I just love my kids ok

Re read The Lightening Theif in honor of the new series being announced and feel in love with these guys all over again

#pjo #percy jackson #pjo fanart #fanart #look ive never drawn fanart but i love these kids so much #i havent even done a full color drawing in like two years but when in lockdown lol #also we dont get enough young percy #its all cute skater boy high school percy and handsome warrior college percy #we need more twelve year old troubled kid percy #also percy is dominican because i say so

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astriiformes · 2 years

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24 for the writing ask?

24 - Have you ever become an expert on something you previously knew nothing about, in order to better a scene or a story?

Oh see this is a fun one because like. When haven't I.

Saying it made me an "expert" feels a little weird since even in-depth fic research is still usually skimming the surface of much larger topics, but I have learned a LOT due to being extremely obsessive about details

A few that come to mind:

I did a lot of historical research for In Search of Antidotes -- among other things, the "train tickets" included in the second chapter represent the actual route and lines Stan would've needed to take to get from Colorado to Oregon in 1892, and I spent a good while reading a couple actual old 1890s medical journals for some of the whumpier details!

I have read the LotR appendices a truly ridiculous number of times working on outlining and writing I Breathed a Song Into the Air, largely to clarify lots of little timeline details and character relationships, but also to take a string and a map of Middle Earth and chart out all the relevant travel in the story, in order to calculate how long each trip would take on foot or horseback and structuring the story accordingly.

THE TRANS BACK TO THE FUTURE FICS. OH BOY. Well for one thing, I recruited a librarian friend to help me do a bunch of research on transmasc history in the 1970s-80s -- particularly in and around smaller cities in California -- in order to try to get as many details right writing a fairly historically accurate trans Marty. That has been super fun and also super moving to poke into, so it's definitely my favorite fic research I've ever done. But I've also gone off the deep end researching a lot of physics and time travel theories, trying to write Doc as as much of a proper Scientist as I can, as well as certain other historical elements -- old science fiction fandom, relevant news stories of the day, you name it. Someday all that research will see the light of day..... someday.....

I’ve been researching a lot of historical alchemy information for Aurum Horizontale, since Percy -- along with Ripley -- is much more of an alchemist due to his circumstances in the AU. That’s been fun -- and been a good naming scheme for all the chapters!

Also I wouldn't claim to have done a massive amount of research yet, but the next things I've started trying to learn more about as a writer are Dominican and Dominican-American culture, experiences, and Spanish for writing Luz -- for all my Owl House stories, but especially for Make a Little Birdhouse in Your Soul since it's a much bigger/longer/more serious project. I always like seeing her cultural background crop up in the show, and I want to make sure it's a part of my characterization of her as well, since it’s something that’s so important to see represented -- especially for chapters written from her POV that include her internal monologue.

#my writing #ask meme

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novemberwasgrey · 4 years

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You’ve talked about piercings but the real question is, do any of the demigods have tattoos?

I might do a second post in the future, I'm sure other demigods have tattoos but I haven't had any other ideas yet.

Percy: his SPQR tattoo. Most people thought he'd get a Trident tattoo but I think he'd rather have this big colorful jellyfish on his back instead; they're his favorite marine species. Throughout his life he'd get name tattoos of the important women of his life: Sally, Estelle, Annabeth and later his daughter, Zoey.

Annabeth: she only has a owl very well hidden under her bra zone.

Nico: his left arm's entirely covered with skulls, Italian sayings and other geometric patterns all intertwined together. It took him a year and a half to finish this tattoo. He also has a tattoo for Will hidden on his hip: a sun. Many people thought it was kinda reckless to make a tattoo for his boyfriend that he wasn't dating for long at the time but Nico once explained it wasn't only for Will; this tattoo symbolizes the end of the darkness he's locked himself in since Bianca's death and that Jason and Will pulled him out of. Overall, the sun is his new life in camp.

Will: he got two arrow bows tattooed on each ankle: one for Lee and the other for Michael.

Clarisse: I like to think she'd make this huge graphic drakon on one of her arms. On the other arm, facing the drakon, she has this tiny Eiffel tower tattoo that people think is for her French roots but it's actually for Silena's: she was Parisian. Clarisse however is from Toulouse so she has 31 tattooed on the back of her neck (it's the number of the French department she's from, Haute-Garonne). Her and Chris both have CR² tattooed on their wrist since they have the same initials.

Chris: CR² on his wrist + he got a quote on his spine that says "hay una enigma detrás de cada loco" which means "there's an enigma behind every madman". He thought it was appropriate given what happened to him in the Labyrinth and this is an episode of his life that he doesn't want to hide like he's ashamed. He wants to own his shit no matter how much it cost him and this tattoo is also a reminder of every demigod lost to the war because of his choices. He got this one (link) on his shoulder when he was drunk after a bar crawl with Leo and Percy (Mamajuana is a famous Dominican drink)

#i only did my main otp #i'll probably have other ideas for my lil ares kids #percy jackson #annabeth chase #percabeth #nico di angelo #will solace #solangelo #clarisse la rue #chris rodriguez #chrisse #pjo

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another-heros-blog · 4 years

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Last night...

I had a very in-depth mental conversation with myself and eventually a friend about what kind of Latino Percy and Leo are.

We knew from the get that they weren't Hispanic because it says in ink that Leo looks like "a Latino Santa's elf" so we wanted to honor that and by default made the same thing for Percy.

I thought about the lighter skinned Latino communities and realized I have a friend who is Cuban and Colombian who looks white passing. We really REALLY liked the idea of Percy being Cuban for reasons completely unknown (and by osmosis Sally since she's the mortal parent). I ALSO headcanon Posideon as a hunky Samoan man so, take with that what you will.

Leo on the other hand was really hard. Since he's from Texas, we were like "ok maybe he's Mexican. That would add for a lot of struggle in his and his mother's backstory if it were to be like that." But we both felt uncomfortable just slapping that label on him and being done with it. As someone in the black and brown community, I didn't exactly want to write that kind of political media (even though I kinda did it in Ashes to Ashes, unshameful promo). So! I had always had this tugging feeling that Leo was Puerto Rican. I have no clue why but every person I've meet from the P.R. has been playful and so sunny but knows when to put in the work when need be (not that others aren't like that!).

My friend suggested him being Colombian so he could have a big culo, but I declined😂.

THEN I had the beautiful ephiphany of a Domincian Hephaestus and my heart sung! I was like, yes anything to add the spices to the pot! I'm a majority African American with some Native American and a dash of Spanish lol and the small joy of Leo Valdez, Puerto Rican (Black) Dominican teenage boy, was so invigorating!

So in conclusion, I love my two brown boys and if you read this you should check out my AO3 and read Ashes to Ashes to see them in action☺️

Tell me what you headcanon!!!! There's so many cultures I don't wanna miss out on any possibilities I may have looked over!

#pjo #hoo #headcanon #percy Jackson #leo Valdez #brown and black boys!#should i write about Piper ans Hazel too?#also Nico's italian #and Frank's chinese!#look #i wanna be there for my POC demigods man #omg Carter and Sadie!#AHHHH #I WANNA SCREAM #I LOVE THEM ALL

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newyorktheater · 4 years

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Abubakr Ali as a Syrian refugee in “On That Day in Amsterdam” by Clarence Coo, a Primary Stages production at Cherry Lane October 29 – December 18, opening November 19

Martyna Majok, a playwright of the displaced in such plays as Ironbound and queens, is author of the long-awaited “Sanctuary City” slated for New York Theatre Workshop sometime in spring

Darius Homayoun and Dina Shihabia as two Syrian refugees in a camp, in “Power Strip” by Sylvia Khoury

William Ragsdale (left), Greg Brostrom (center), and Soraya Broukhim (right) in a scene from “The Hope Hypothesis” by Cat Miller at the Sheen Center

“Border People” written and performed by Dan Hoyle at A.R.T./NY Theaters, January 25 – February 23, 2020, then going on an NYC borough tour in March.

Vera Gurpinar (little girl), Ben Turner, Mohammad Amiri in “The Jungle” written by Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson, which returns to St. Ann’s Warehouse in April

Arian Moayed, the Tony-nominated theater artist who has been involved with several works about refugees

Kathleen Chalfant reading pediatrician testimony in the Flores Exhibits online

sign outside “The Jungle” which reproduces a refugee camp at St. Ann’s Warehouse

Refugees are in the news these days, and their stories have suddenly come to New York stages. “I think it is important to ask an audience to recognize lives that we have literally fenced off, that as Americans we are complicit in forgetting,” says Sylvia Khoury, the author of “Power Strip” at Lincoln Center, one of the four playwrights I talk to in my article for TDF Stages on refugee plays.

“Power Strip,” which is set in a refuge camp in Greece modeled after the notorious Moria camp, is one of plays that are currently on stage or about to be, with three more slated for spring, including a return of The Jungle at St. Ann’s Warehouse.

And then there is The Flores Exhibits, a series of online videos in which theater artists and activists read the testimonies of children being held in detention facilities at the border.

“The words refugee, immigrants, and asylum seekers are often confused,” Arian Moayed clarified for me. Moayed is the Tony-nominated actor and co-founder of Waterwell, the theater company behind The Flores Exhibits, and also The Courtroom, a reenactment of a deportation case that will be performed monthly. ” Honestly, that might be one of the big issues we are facing as a nation: We aren’t very well-versed on why people are coming to the United States. According to Rescue.org, “a refugee is someone who has been forced to flee his or her home because of war, violence or persecution, often without warning.” An immigrant is defined differently, as someone who “makes a conscious decision to leave his or her home and move to a foreign country with the intention of settling there,” according to Amnesty International. And an asylum seeker is “someone whose request for sanctuary has yet to be processed,” according to UN Refugee Agency.” There are some 68 million refugees and asylum-seekers worldwide, according to the International Rescue Committee.

The Week in New York Theater Previews and Reviews

Seared, which is opening October 28 at MCC Theater, was inspired by playwright Theresa Rebeck’s favorite restaurant in Park Slope, which, though prized and popular, was unable to make a go of it. The four-character play revolves around Harry, portrayed by Raúl Esparza, a talented but mercurial chef who sees what he does as art. He bickers frequently with his business partner Mike (Dave Mason), and he’s furious when Mike hires a restaurant consultant, portrayed by Krysta Rodriguez.

I talked to Krysta Rodriguez, who can relate to Emily, although she’s never worked in a restaurant: “She is close to me in a lot of ways. She’s a bright woman who is very ambitious, who sort of knew what she wanted to do early on and took it by the horns.”

Forbidden Broadway The Next Generation

Three years after he spoofed “Hamilton” in “Spamilton” (with “I am not throwing away my shot” becoming “I am not gonna let Broadway rot,”) Gerard Alessandrini paints Lin-Manuel Miranda less heroically in “Forbidden Broadway: The Next Generation,” the 26th edition of the hit-or-miss, but must-see, satirical revue….If “Forbidden Broadway” is uneven, so is Broadway. Indeed, as in past editions, the Next Generation at the Triad offers something of a snapshot of the current state of The Great White Way — where, as Manny Houston sings in the opening number, “the white is gray and the great is only okay.”

The Lightning Thief

I think if I were eight years old I might have loved “The Lightning Thief” on Broadway, but that’s mostly because I would then have been too young to have seen it at the Lucille Lortel Theatre five years ago. Downtown, this musical about Percy Jackson, a modern American adolescent who also happens to be a demigod from Greek mythology, was just an hour long, charming in a do-it-yourself low-budget way….and with free admission!

At Broadway’s Longacre Theater, “The Lightning Thief” is two hours long, not as charming…and very much not free. Bringing the musical to Broadway hasn’t made “The Lightning Thief” a better show — it’s ballooned beyond its fighting weight…

Scotland, PA

There is one spectacularly funny moment in this musical comedy version of “Macbeth,” which is based on Billy Morrissette’s 2001 movie, and is set in a fast-food restaurant in the “podunk town” of Scotland, Pennsylvania in 1975….Despite a cast and creative team full of New York theater pros, everything else about “Scotland, PA”, is, at best, just ok.

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf

Forty-one years after Broadway said goodbye after 742 thrilling performances to its first (and last) choreopoem, and a year after its author and original performer died at the age of 70, seven women are bringing the colors of the rainbow back to a stage of the Public Theater through dance and song and nursery rhymes, through collective storytelling and individual tales ugly or sweet about the lives of women of color, delivered in verse.

Ntozake Shange’s groundbreaking work of theater signals something unique from its very title: “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When The Rainbow is Enuf.” If the poetic language may sometimes be too dense and quick for full comprehension, the rhythm always gets you through. The production is offered like a gift by an all-female cast and crew.

Is This A Room?

“Is This A Room” stages the verbatim transcript of the FBI interrogation of a 25-year-old former Air Force linguist with the improbable name of Reality Winner, who was eventually sentenced to more than five years in prison for leaking to the press an intelligence report about Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections….In light of recent events involving whistleblowers, Winner’s case seems all the more stupefying.

Soft Power

David Henry Hwang was attacked by an unknown assailant with a knife and nearly died. That experience, along with the playwright’s shock at the results of the 2016 Presidential election and his oft-expressed ambivalence towards the patronizing but gorgeous Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “The King and I,” all make their way into “Soft Power,” an unusual musical by Hwang and composer Jeanine Tesori that inventively and oddly presents the themes of East-West divide that Hwang has long explored in such works as “M Butterfly” and “Chinglish.”

The Rose Tattoo

here are many cues to what’s wrong with this overly broad third Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ dated play, starring Marisa Tomei as Serafina Delle Rose, a Sicilian immigrant seamstress who turns from besotted wife to grieving widow to betrayed widow (because her husband had a mistress) to hopeful new lover…a dance of romance between two that is meant to be funny and charming and heartwarming but presents these Italian-Americans as something less than the fully human characters for which Williams is justly lauded…

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Oscar, a fat freshman in thick bifocals meeting his college roommate for the first time, greets him with what sounds like an insult…which is actually a nerdy pun, and then speaks in Elvish, a language from Lord of the Rings…This quirky exchange right at the beginning of “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” is an illustration of the particular challenges and rewards in this stage adaptation at Repertorio Espanol of Junot Diaz’s 2007 novel, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. There’s much to delight in the vivid characters in the story, and in the several cultures they reflect — Dominican culture, immigrant culture, Comic-con culture – but for the uninitiated it requires extra attention.

The Week in New York Theater News

Mrs. Doubtfire, a musical based on the 1993 movie, will open on Broadway, at Stephen Sondheim Theater April 5, with Rob McClure taking on the role Robin Williams played in the movie.

Ali Stroker

Two unusual takes on Golden Age Broadway musicals have announced their closing dates. “Fiddler on the Roof” in Yiddish, Off Broadway at Stage 42, will close January 5. “Oklahoma!,” on Broadway at Circle in the Square, will close January 19.

Jane Alexander and James Cromwell, each returning to Broadway after an absence of more than two decades, will lead Grand Horizons, as a long-time couple whose marriage is unraveling in Bess Wohl’s new play, which opens at Broadway’s Helen Hayes Theater on January 23rd. Also in the cast: Priscilla Lopez, Maulik Pancholy, Ashley Park and Michael Urie.

Darren Criss

Darren Criss is joining Laurence Fishburne and Sam Rockwell in the cast of the revival of David Mamet’s “American Buffalo,” which will open next spring at Circle in the Square Theater.

Playwrights Horizons succession

Tim Sanford will step down after as artistic director of Playwrights Horizons, where he’s worked for 35 years, to be succeeded by Adam Greenfield, currently the associate artistic director.

2019 TLA Theater Book Award Winners and Finalists

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Critics Corner: Death, Struggle, Rebirth

The Death of the Great Cultural Critic In the New Statesman: George Steiner turned 90 this year. A major biography of Susan Sontag was published last month. And Harold Bloom died on 14 October. All three were once hugely influential cultural critics, among the best-known on either side of the Atlantic….What has become of the commanding figure of the critic in the last 20 years? Where are the successors to Sontag and Steiner?…

Audiences, Parasites and Personal Revelations

A conversation in Howlround by theater critic Maddy Costa, playwright Alice Birch, and playwright and critic Ava Wong Davies, who discuss such issues as whether critics are writing for theatergoers or theater makers , whether they’re writing for people before they go see a show or for people to read after, and how many theater makers see criticism as parasitic, not caring for the host.

Critiquing with Love

Interview in American Theatre Magazine with Regina Victor, co-founder of Rescripted, which covers Chicago theater with new voices

Cultivating the Next Generation of Critics

Pascale Florestal on tackling the lack of representation of people of color in arts criticism through a new program at the Front Porch Arts Collective in Boston

Review for the New York Times The Times is establishing a fellowship position in 2020 to help train the next generation of fine arts critics. Applicants should have 2-4 years of experience publishing frequently about theater, dance, classical music or art. The ideal candidate will demonstrate the ability to write elegantly and forcefully and must be comfortable with assessing both the aesthetic and larger context concerns of a work. In order to ensure regular feedback and maximize opportunities for growth, the fellows will be paired with a dedicated editor/writing coach

Theatergoing/Theatermaking While Disabled

What the National Endowment for the Arts is doing to make sure no one is excluded from the arts — including the 55 million Americans who are disabled. Accessibility is obtainable; the biggest barrier is attitude. “organizations are just not making accessibility a priority”

Everything Going His Way, though it took some effort Russell Demben took his father, a Parkinson’s patient and stroke survivor, to Oklahoma!

“You’ve got to get through the ugly to get to the joy,” #RodneyHicks says about his new play, Flame Broiled, at Colorado’s @DairyArts. But Bway vet (@ComeFromAway etc) might as well be talking about his bouncing back from diagnosis that cut short his performing career. Bravo! pic.twitter.com/SDYbhNOThs

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) October 23, 2019

The cast of Jagged Little Pill

Refugees on Stage. Critics’ Death and Rebirth (Review for the Times!) #Stageworthy News of the Week Refugees are in the news these days, and their stories have suddenly come to New York stages.

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