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Posters for National Theater of Korea's production of Macbeth, designed by Yuni Yoshida and photographed by Noh Juhan. [1][2]

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Ya… that

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This is what it is to love an artist: The moon is always rising above your house. The houses of your neighbors look dull and lacking in moonlight. But he is always going away from you. Inside his head there is always something more beautiful. Orpheus said the mind is a slide ruler. It can fit around anything. Words can mean anything. Show me your body, he said. It only means one thing.

Eurydice, by Sarah Ruhl. Scene 16.

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Not quite the guy I’d have chose to be, but when she’s standing so close to me, I think I like her plan.

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Diana Sands as "Joan" in George Bernard Shaw's SAINT JOAN (the first time a Black actress played the role in a major Broadway production) at the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater, here with Philip Bosco as Dunois, Bastard of Orleans, 1967 — 1968.

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Alan Rickman and Harriet Walter, The Lucky Chance (1984)

“Sometimes theater takes more than it gives,” sighs Rickman. “It’s great when the curtain comes down at the end … and it’s great when you’re doing it, too. It’s just that hanging on to that concentration for two solid hours is hard. At least in a film if you screw it up you can do it again.” (The Chronicle, 2003)

Edited: Thanks for pointing out my mistake.

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i just read an article and apparently jonathan kaplan (who played jason in the falsettos obc and was 11 at the time), watched his voice teacher who helped him through the show's auditions decline and eventually die from aids related illness during the show's previews.

in this same article michael rupert mentioned how there would be patients who came and saw the show and would go to the stage door just to be near the performers and tell them how much the story meant to them.

one day, heather macrae (charlotte) attended the funeral of her friend paul jabra and immediately after went straight to the theatre to perform in the evening show.

stephen bogardus recalls leaving the theatre and walking through the audience (about 15 minutes after the show had finished) and people would still be there holding each other.

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Lisa Dillon as Moll Cutpurse in The Roaring Girl

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cant talk rn obsessed over the design concept of this 2017 production of pinocchio as a stage play where pinocchio is the only character played by a human actor and the rest of the cast are portrayed as puppets ,,,

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REEVE CARNEY’S ORPHEUS TURNED AROUND FOR EVA NOBLEZADA’S EURYDICE ONE FINAL TIME AND THE LIGHT SHONE A SECOND LONGER SO EVA COULD LOOK TO THE AUDIENCE AND SMILE. WHAT LINGERS IN THE CYCLE IS SOMETHING SO SWEET. SOMETHING SO SWEET AND REAL WILL ALWAYS SHATTER THE TRAGEDY LOOP.

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A Comprehensive Reading List For Spring Awakening Dramaturgy

Suicide, Sex, and the Discovery of the German Adolescent - Sterling Fishman*

The Way of Youth: Buddhist Common Sense for Handling Life’s Questions - Daisaku Ikeda (w/ foreward by Duncan Sheik, maybe worth reading, maybe not, who knows?) 

A Purple Summer: Notes on the Lyrics of Spring Awakening - Steven Sater+

Some Lovers(musical) - Steven Sater & Burt Bacharach^

American Psycho(musical) - Duncan Sheik & Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa^

Whisper House(musical) - Duncan Sheik & Kyle Jarrow^

Problematische Kindesnaturen: Eine Studie Für Schule Und Haus (Actual Text Probably in English?)- Gustav Siegert* 

Images of Youth and the Family in Wilhelmine Germany: Toward a Reconsideration of the German Sonderweg - Tom Taylor*

Diary of an Erotic Life - Frank Wedekind 

Poems and Songs - Frank Wedekind^

The Awakening of Spring (Available in the PAL) - Frank Wedekind^

The Awakening of Spring (Video) - Frank Wedekind (dir. by  Arthur Allan Seidelman)^

The Lulu Plays (Available in PAL) - Frank Wedekind^

+ = Good resource for actors

* = Important historical context

^ = Familiarizing yourself with Wedekind, Sater, & Shiek’s other work & “style”

Everything else = just nerd stuff for those interested

Hopefully this list will be updated as we find more resources

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“what do butch/butch couples do?” this

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Who are you when you're not performing?

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When I found this image in my old undergrad theatre history textbook today, I shrieked with excitement - it's a set design for the vineyard scene in the original 1906 production of Spring Awakening, directed by Max Reinhardt.

I found a clearer version online, in the Max Reinhardt Archive (source).

I adore the intricate details!

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''How often, in musical theater, do you get a chance to deal with material like this that has so many levels, and how often do you get wonderful music like this?'' Mr. Rupert responded. ''I think it's a show that needs to be seen. And I don't think I ever felt that about a show before. ''Of course, it does give you an incongruous feeling. After all that's happened through the years, here I am, still in the same corduroy coat and same khaki pants. You think, 'What have I really done with my life that I'm doing this again?' But of course, there is an answer to that. I think we all got involved with this because we loved the idea of doing it.'' Mr. Zien added: ''It does sound really corny. But that's what it is: a labor of love.''

—Michael Rupert and Chip Zien about Falsettoland, 1990

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EVA NOBLEZADA as EURYDICE HADESTOWN