MrMead's Pupu Platter

• The Hamilton Mixtape!

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  Am I the last person in America to know about this? Apparently Lin-Manuel Miranda, he of In the Heights fame, performed this slyly humorous new piece last May.
  
  How cool is it that this kind of performance can now happen in the White House? Thank you, Cousin Tabitha, for [...]
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  Posted: November 30, 2009, 8:10pm EST
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• Exeunt

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  Below is a lengthy excursus written by my colleague Matthew David Wilder. Those of you who believe we should have dispensed with the messy, frustrating endeavor of theater years ago may want to skip this post. Otherwise, read on. Whether you're struggling within the "mainstream" theater (a' [...]
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  Posted: November 28, 2009, 7:51pm EST
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• Days have gone by and I couldn't be sorrier.

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  Yes, I've done it again. Disappeared. But now I'm back.
  
  You did realize I was gone, didn’t you? Well. By way of celebrating my Thanksgiving advent, I’m going to filch from the creativity of some fellow bloggers.
  
  Following playwright Patrick Wohlmut’s lead [...]
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  Posted: November 27, 2009, 3:01pm EST
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• Thespian Nation

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  Just finished the theater equivalent of Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride (don’t extend the metaphor too far, please) that’s taken me from one end of the county to the other. It started on Wednesday – not with a play, actually, but a theatrical event. Dmae Roberts read from her work-in-progress [...]
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  Posted: November 16, 2009, 5:33pm EST
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• At last: a No Exit I can live with

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  Plays I refuse to sit through again in this lifetime:
  
  All My Sons
  Feydeau’s idiotic so-called sex farces
  Spring Awakening
  Pretty much all Roman “comedies”
  Mother Courage
  Butterflies Are Free
  
  Although I must admit. There’s a passel of plays that always struck me as [...]
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  Posted: November 10, 2009, 10:38pm EST
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• Orpheus a là mode

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  Forget what you believe about Philip Glass. If you’re accustomed to associated his music with numbing repetition and avant-garde antics, his opera Orphée is going to come as a surprise. Oh, it sounds like Glass all right. But yoked into the service of narrative, his music finds depths and [...]
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  Posted: November 07, 2009, 11:05am EST
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• My big trip

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  Though my Halloween Countdown disguised the fact, I was gone for a spell last week, sunning my pasty northwestern legs and otherwise aging my skin cells in the turquoise waters of Napili Bay. Maui.
  
  Sure, it was lovely. But remind me never to leave Portland [...]
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  Posted: November 03, 2009, 8:48pm EST
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• Life on the dark side

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  Okay, so All Souls’ Day is November 2, not today. Today is the far less interesting All Saints’ Day, but we’ll blip over that in order to continuing with the more mysterious and ooky tides of the season.
  
  Here in tropical Portland, [...]
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  Posted: November 01, 2009, 10:52am EST
  by Mead